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The Accidental

By Ali Smith

By Ali Smith

By Ali Smith

By Ali Smith

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Apr 10, 2007 | ISBN 9781400032181

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Apr 10, 2007 | ISBN 9780307279750

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    About The Accidental

    Filled with Ali Smith’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.

    About The Accidental

    Filled with Ali Smith’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.

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    About Ali Smith

    ALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, and How to be both, which won the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has four times… More about Ali Smith

    About Ali Smith

    ALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, and How to be both, which won the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has four times… More about Ali Smith

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Anchor
    Apr 10, 2007 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400032181

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Anchor
    Apr 10, 2007 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307279750

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    Praise

    “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

    Awards

    Whitbread Novel Award WINNER 2005

    James Tait Black Memorial Prize FINALIST

    Man Booker Prize FINALIST 2005

    Orange Prize FINALIST 2006

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