- Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), English Short stories, New York Times reviewed
"The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, our heads and our funny bones. 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. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other."--Jacket.
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- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ali Smith
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307454850
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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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