About Change: Ali Smith’s Numismatic Modernism.
Intimacy amidst global competition is the subject of Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy: The Myth oflphis, the most recent volume in Canongate's The Myths series. This is a minor work by a major writer, and feels either like a lean short story or.
The Power of the Literary Pun.. whimsical music, arch in places, with the sound of antique English children’s literature.. Sometimes you finish an Ali Smith book unsure about the final.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she was a lecturer at the University of Stratchclyde. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she was a lecturer at the University of Stratchclyde.
The myth of Iphis is one of the happier of Ovid's metamorphoses: the girl raised as a boy to avoid her father's wrath falls in love with another girl, upon which her gender is changed by the.
There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my most favourite writers. Read her now!' A. M. Homes The visionary, fearless Lydia Davis presents a dazzling collection of essays on reading and writing, exploring the full scope of possibility within existing forms of literature and considering how we might challenge and reinvent these forms.
About the Author. Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the 'Seasonal' quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award.
Ali Smith's Hotel World is the story of a fatal accident and its traumatic consequences. Hotel chambermaid Sara Wilby bets a co-worker that she can stuff herself into the hotel's dumbwaiter.
Like is the blossoming talent of Ali Smith splurged into one long rambling debut novel. This is a novel from a writer who doesnt hold out much hope of writing a second. This is a novel from a writer who doesnt hold out much hope of writing a second.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her books have won and been shortlisted for many awards. Her recent publications include How To Be Both (2014), winner of the Goldsmiths and Baileys Prize and the Costa Book Award for Best Novel; a collection of short stories, Public Library (2015), and the novels Autumn (2016) and Winter (2017), the first two novels in a.
The Accidental is a 2005 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It follows a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest, Amber, while they are on holiday in a small village in Norfolk.Amber's arrival has a profound effect on all the family members.
Smith's opening piece, Library, which is printed with the title crossed out, documents a visit that Smith and her editor made to a building near Covent Garden, which formerly had been a library.
Artful presents, in book form, four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. Full of both the poignancy and humour of fiction and all the sideways insights and jaunty angles you.
When Ali Smith started Autumn last year she envisaged it as a farce about an antiques shop. It’s the first of four novels, one for each season, reacting to real-life events. But Smith says she.
