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  The First Person and Other Stories (Paperback) By (author) Ali Smith

  

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  Short Description for The First Person and Other StoriesA collection of stories that unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 28 May 2009
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780141038018 ISBN 10: 0141038012
  • Sales rank: 379,827

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• 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.