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The First Person and Other Stories
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  • Published: 11 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241992937
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

The First Person and Other Stories

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17 Aug 2009
Audiobook
11 Feb 2021
Paperback
17 Aug 2009
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'A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is' The Times

Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third story that challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality, the narrator, 'Ali', drinks tea, phones a friend, and muses on the surprising similarities between a short story and a nymph...

Fans of Ali Smith will be delighted, amused and moved by these stories from a writer at the very top of her game.
  • Published: 11 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241992937
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith's works of fiction include the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her story collections include Free Love, which won a Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, The Whole Story and Other Stories, and How to be Both, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2015. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith lives in Cambridge, England.
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