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Book SynopsisA form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet
''A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form'' Independent
A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, we see a narrator, ''Ali'', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph.
Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones in equal measure. One-of-a-kind Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.
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''Hurrah for Ali Smith
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Terrific . . . hurrah for Ali Smith * The Times *
Wonderful . . . Smith has found a format in which her sly wit and dextrous storytelling sing. It might be more helpful to say: read them * Independent *
She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense * Alain de Botton *
One of the most gifted writers of her generation * Scotsman *
