- literary fiction, psychological fiction, urban fiction, Middle-aged men
There But For The is a 2011 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton and in the US by Pantheon, and set in 2009 and 2010 in Greenwich, London. It was cited by both The Guardian book review and the Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year. and was also longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.
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Contemporary, contemplative, prestige and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ali Smith
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, W F Howes, Penguin Export
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141025193
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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/Au
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