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A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet

''Playful and audacious'' Independent

Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, Artful slips slyly between fiction and essay, guiding the reader thrillingly through a sequence of ideas on art and literature. With Smith''s trademark humour, inventiveness, poignancy and critical insight, this is unique experiment in form, style, life, love, death, immortality and what art can mean.

Based on four electrifying lectures given by the author at Oxford University, and exploring the explosive connections between art, story, memory and grief - Artful is a tidal wave of ideas to blast away the cobwebs and change how you see the world.

*****

''Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . makes

Artful

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 3 October 2013
      ISBN-13 9780241959572
      978-0241959572
      ISBN-10 0241959578
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction Books by Ali Smith

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet

      ''Playful and audacious'' Independent

      Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, Artful slips slyly between fiction and essay, guiding the reader thrillingly through a sequence of ideas on art and literature. With Smith''s trademark humour, inventiveness, poignancy and critical insight, this is unique experiment in form, style, life, love, death, immortality and what art can mean.

      Based on four electrifying lectures given by the author at Oxford University, and exploring the explosive connections between art, story, memory and grief - Artful is a tidal wave of ideas to blast away the cobwebs and change how you see the world.

      *****

      ''Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . makes

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