The Whole Story and Other Stories

The Whole Story and Other Stories

by Ali Smith (Author)

Synopsis

This is a brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. It presents stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out and don't want it to. How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence? In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 24 Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 0140296808
ISBN 13: 9780140296808

Media Reviews
Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her. --Jeanette Winterson
One of Britain's major talents. . . . Startlingly accomplished. -- The Atlantic Monthly
A joy to read. -- Sunday Times (London)
Smith is a gifted and meticulous architect of character and voice. -- The Washington Post
She's street-savvy and poignant at once. . . . There's a kind of stainless steel clarity at the center of her fiction. -- The Boston Globe
Smith proves herself an experimental writer even your mother could love. -- Elle
Author Bio
Ali Smith is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, Public library and other stories and Autumn. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.