The First Person and Other Stories

Smith, Ali

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

Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9780141038018
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2009
Kirjastoluokka: 84.5 Kaunokirjallisuus
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): 2409 english fiction UK 3