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7 Σεπ 2020 · Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and very funny, Smith explores the ways, and the whys, of storytelling. The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion.
10 Απρ 2018 · Brought together -- and forced apart -- by a bizarre incident involving a dumb waiter, we share their very different experiences of the life in the aftermath of death, of pain and sorrow, of hope and love -- everything, in fact, that the world dares to throw at us.
The First Person and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2008. It contains 12 stories :- " True Short Story " - A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard.
20 Δεκ 2017 · Perhaps no British writer captures this transitional phase as well as Ali Smith, whose works may be seen to reflect a Janus-faced attitude towards postmodernism and its legacy. Indeed, Smith's novels frequently challenge the real/imagined boundaries that postmodernism is preoccupied with.
8 Αυγ 2021 · Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award.
Ali Smith : contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Monica Germanà and Emily Horton. pages cm. – (Contemporary Critical Perspectives) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4411-0518-9 (pbk.) – ISBN 978-1-4411-5760-7 (hardcover) – ISBN 978-1-4411-5990-8 (pdf) – ISBN 978-1-4411-8155-8 (epub) 1.
13 Σεπ 2011 · From the acclaimed, award-winning author—when a dinner-party guest named Miles locks himself in an upstairs room and refuses to come out, he sets off a media frenzy. He also sets in motion a mesmerizing puzzle of a novel, one that harnesses acrobatic verbal playfulness to a truly affecting story.
