The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith

The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith

"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its 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 stories in "The First Person and Other Stories" are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.

She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense * Alain de Botton *
One of the most gifted writers of her generation * Scotsman *
She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense * Alain de Botton *
One of the most gifted writers of her generation * Scotsman *

Ali Smith is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, Public library and other stories and Autumn. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780241144268
ISBN 10	0241144264
Title	The First Person and Other Stories
Author	Ali Smith
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2008-10-02
Number of pages	224
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