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The Whole Story and Other Stories

By Ali Smith

By Ali Smith

By Ali Smith

By Ali Smith

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Paperback $14.00

Mar 09, 2004 | ISBN 9781400075676

Ebook $11.99

Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307429612

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    About The Whole Story and Other Stories

    From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made.

    What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he’s Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who’s built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of The Great Gatsby, Smith’s characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself.

    About The Whole Story and Other Stories

    From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made.

    What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he’s Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who’s built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of The Great Gatsby, Smith’s characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself.

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    Also by Ali Smith

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    Seasonal Quartet (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
    Spring
    Winter
    See all books by Ali Smith

    About Ali Smith

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

    About Ali Smith

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

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 09, 2004 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400075676

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor
    Dec 18, 2007 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307429612

    Praise

    “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

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