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by Ali Smith
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ali SmithPublish date:2007-04-10Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400032181ISBN-10:1400032180UPC:9781400032181Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, HumorousSize:7.94 x 5.24 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC5S0AHYEM

Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family's summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people.

Each of the Smarts--parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid--encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith's narrative freedom and exhilarating facility with language propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400032181ISBN-10:1400032180UPC:9781400032181Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, HumorousSize:7.94 x 5.24 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC5S0AHYEM

Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Her most recent novel, How to be both, was a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Bailey Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Costa Novel Award, and the Saltire Literary Book of the Year Award. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith lives in Cambridge, England.


Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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