Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year award 2005, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 and the Saltire Award 2005.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She 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, and Public library and other stories. 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 Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge and her next novel is forthcoming in 2016.
"Astonishing. . . . Vivid and affecting. . . . Wonderfully supple,
jazzy." -"The New York Times"
"Persistently sparkling pages...of startling and clarifying
emotional power. . . . It casts a spell." --"The Atlantic
Monthly"
"Completely captivating. . . . Thoroughly charming and melodic. . .
.Devilishly lovely." --"The Boston Globe"
"Beautifully executed. . . . A few pages [in] and you begin to
remember how much fun it is to put yourself in the hands of a
skilled, majestically confident writer. . . . Delightful."
--"The New York Observer"
"Brims with wit, humor, and energy." --"The Christian Science
Monitor"
" Astonishing. . . . Vivid and affecting. . . . Wonderfully supple,
jazzy." - "The New York Times"
" Persistently sparkling pages...of startling and clarifying
emotional power. . . . It casts a spell." -- "The Atlantic
Monthly"
" Completely captivating. . . . Thoroughly charming and melodic. .
. .Devilishly lovely." -- "The Boston Globe"
" Beautifully executed. . . . A few pages [in] and you begin to
remember how much fun it is to put yourself in the hands of a
skilled, majestically confident writer. . . . Delightful."
-- "The New York Observer"
" Brims with wit, humor, and energy." -- "The Christian Science
Monitor"
from the United Kingdom:
"An outstanding novel . . . Exuberantly inventive . . . Beautifully
formed and astringently intelligent . . . It is as good as anyone
who has been watching the progress of this talented author could
possibly have hoped."
-"The Sunday Times"
"Funny, sexy, poignant, surprising, playful . . . Although the
novel dazzles with the richness of language and ideas, it retains a
delicious lightness."
-"The Observer"
"Spectacular . . . Allusive, ambitious and formally acrobatic . . .
Original, restless, formally and morally challenging, [Ali Smith]
remains a writer who resists definition."
-"The Times Literary Supplement"
"Amazing . . . Dazzling . . . Smith is one of our greatest
imaginative writers."
-"The Scotsman"
"Joyous . . . Smith plays dizzying games with her story and
language; she bends and buckles her prose, breathes fire into it,
lets it cool, swirls it up in unimaginable shapes. This is writing
as pure rapture, as giddy delight."
-"The Times" "From the Hardcover edition."
"Astonishing. . . . Vivid and affecting. . . . Wonderfully supple,
jazzy." -"The New York Times"
"Persistently sparkling pages...of startling and clarifying
emotional power. . . . It casts a spell." --"The Atlantic
Monthly"
"Completely captivating. . . . Thoroughly charming and melodic. . .
.Devilishly lovely." --"The Boston Globe"
"Beautifully executed. . . . A few pages [in] and you begin to
remember how much fun it is to put yourself in the hands of a
skilled, majestically confident writer. . . . Delightful."
--"The New York Observer"
"Brims with wit, humor, and energy." --"The Christian Science
Monitor"
" Astonishing. . . . Vivid and affecting. . . . Wonderfully supple,
jazzy." - "The New York Times"
" Persistently sparkling pages...of startling and clarifying
emotional power. . . . It casts a spell." -- "The Atlantic
Monthly"
" Completely captivating. . . . Thoroughly charming and melodic. .
. .Devilishly lovely." -- "The Boston Globe"
" Beautifully executed. . . . A few pages [in] and you begin to
remember how much fun it is to put yourself in the hands of a
skilled, majestically confident writer. . . . Delightful."
-- "The New York Observer"
" Brims with wit, humor, and energy." -- "The Christian Science
Monitor"
from the United Kingdom:
"An outstanding novel . . . Exuberantly inventive . . . Beautifully
formed and astringently intelligent . . . It is as good as anyone
who has been watching the progress of this talented author could
possibly have hoped."
-"The Sunday Times"
"Funny, sexy, poignant, surprising, playful . . . Although the
novel dazzles with the richness of language and ideas, it retains a
delicious lightness."
-"The Observer"
"Spectacular . . . Allusive, ambitious and formally acrobatic . . .
Original, restless, formally and morally challenging, [Ali Smith]
remains a writer who resists definition."
-"The Times Literary Supplement"
"Amazing . . . Dazzling . . . Smith is one of our greatest
imaginative writers."
-"The Scotsman"
"Joyous . . . Smith plays dizzying games with her story and
language; she bends and buckles her prose, breathes fire into it,
lets it cool, swirls it up in unimaginable shapes. This is writing
as pure rapture, as giddy delight."
-"The Times"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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