- Aging, Conduct of life, Centenarians, Grandchildren
A girl's friendship with an older neighbor stands at the center of this multifaceted meditation on aging, art, love, and affection.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and spare.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Ali Smith
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Penguin Books, Limited, Anchor
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670070039
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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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