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You will want to read this book at least three times: once in a headlong rush of fandom; then with an internet connection and a dictionary of poetic terms; and finally in a darkened room with the phone switched off and time to savour Smith''s delicious, playful use of language. A truly bewitching collection - Katy Guest, Independent on Sunday

Smith is a trickster, an etymologist, a fantasist, a pun freak, an ontologist... a wordsmith to the very smithy of her soul, she is at once deeply playful and deeply serious - The New York Times

In four short stories fusions of poetry Ali Smith pays tribute to the sources, the people and the places which produce and nurture life and art. In an opening up of norths and souths, she traces unexpected conduits between Cambridge and the north of Scotland. Like all of Ali Smith's work, here spot-lit by Sarah Wood's delicate art, this is a book that will blow fresh air through the mind and set readers' pulses racing.

Shire

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      Publisher UEA Publishing Project
      Published 1 June 2013
      ISBN-13 9780957152823
      978-0957152823
      ISBN-10 0957152825
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      Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction Books by Ali Smith

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      You will want to read this book at least three times: once in a headlong rush of fandom; then with an internet connection and a dictionary of poetic terms; and finally in a darkened room with the phone switched off and time to savour Smith''s delicious, playful use of language. A truly bewitching collection - Katy Guest, Independent on Sunday

      Smith is a trickster, an etymologist, a fantasist, a pun freak, an ontologist... a wordsmith to the very smithy of her soul, she is at once deeply playful and deeply serious - The New York Times

      In four short stories fusions of poetry Ali Smith pays tribute to the sources, the people and the places which produce and nurture life and art. In an opening up of norths and souths, she traces unexpected conduits between Cambridge and the north of Scotland. Like all of Ali Smith's work, here spot-lit by Sarah Wood's delicate art, this is a book that will blow fresh air through the mind and set readers' pulses racing.

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