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The Whole Story and Other Stories
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  • Published: 24 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140296808
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

The Whole Story and Other Stories

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11 Feb 2021
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24 June 2004
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Ali Smith's most recent novel, Hotel World, was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002.

A brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author.

Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to . . . How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence? In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar.
  • Published: 24 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140296808
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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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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