TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Ali
TI  - The first person and other stories
SN  - 9780141038018 (pbk.)
U1  - 823.914 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Hamish Hamilton
KW  - Short stories
N1  - Originally published: 2008
N2  - Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third story that challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality, the narrator, 'Ali', drinks tea, phones a friend, and muses on the surprising similarities between a short story and a nymph...Fans of Ali Smith will be delighted, amused and moved by these stories from a writer at the very top of her game

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