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  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141900322
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

The First Person and Other Stories




The First Person and Other Stories marks Booker- and Orange Prize-shortlisted Ali Smith's dazzling return to short fiction.

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.

  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141900322
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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Praise for The First Person and Other Stories

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