The First Person
by Ali Smith
From The Whitbread Award-winning Author Of The Accidental And Hotel World Comes This Stunning Collection Of Stories Set In A World Of Everyday Dislocation, Where People Nevertheless Find Connection, Mystery, And Love. These Tales Are Of Ordinary But Poignant Beauty: At The Pub, Strangers Regale Each Other With Memories Of Christmases Past; Lovers Share Tales Over Dinner About How They Met, Their Former Lovers, And Each Other; A Woman Even Tells A Story To Her Fourteen-year-old Self. As Smith Explores The Subtle Links Between What We Know And What We Feel, She Creates An Exuberant, Masterly Collection That Is Packed Full Of Ideas, Humor, Nuance, And Compassion. Ali Smith And The Short Story Are Made For Each Other. From The Trade Paperback Edition.
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH224
LANGUAGEEN
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize; and The First Person and Other Stories (2008). [Source][1] [1]: http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000049781,00.html
The First Person
by Ali Smith
From The Whitbread Award-winning Author Of The Accidental And Hotel World Comes This Stunning Collection Of Stories Set In A World Of Everyday Dislocation, Where People Nevertheless Find Connection, Mystery, And Love. These Tales Are Of Ordinary But Poignant Beauty: At The Pub, Strangers Regale Each Other With Memories Of Christmases Past; Lovers Share Tales Over Dinner About How They Met, Their Former Lovers, And Each Other; A Woman Even Tells A Story To Her Fourteen-year-old Self. As Smith Explores The Subtle Links Between What We Know And What We Feel, She Creates An Exuberant, Masterly Collection That Is Packed Full Of Ideas, Humor, Nuance, And Compassion. Ali Smith And The Short Story Are Made For Each Other. From The Trade Paperback Edition.
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH224
LANGUAGEEN
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize; and The First Person and Other Stories (2008). [Source][1] [1]: http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000049781,00.html
