A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted,Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form'Independent A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed,insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality,we see a narrator,'Ali',as she drinks tea,phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative,sophisticated and intelligent,The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts,heads and funny bones in equal measure. One-of-a-kind Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.'Hurrah for Ali Smith...A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is'The Times'Gleefully turns the short story inside-out...Smith is such a dazzling author that finishing one of her books is always bittersweet'Scotland on Sunday
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141038018Number of pages: 224Weight: 159 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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Terrific...hurrah for Ali SmithWonderful...Smith has found a format in which her sly wit and dextrous storytelling sing. It might be more helpful to say: read themShe's a genius,genuinely modern in the heroic,glorious senseOne of the most gifted writers of her generation
Ali Smith
Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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