The First Person and Other Stories Paperback / softback
by Ali Smith
Paperback / softback
Description
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
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780141038018
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141038018