There But for the

There But for the
Ali Smith
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NZ$ 26.00
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NZ$ 20.80
Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
5 Jul 2012 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780141025193
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Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out. Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever. This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people? Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliche and grace. Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.
Whimsically devastating. Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting Guardian Remarkable. A brilliant novel: funny, serious, always surprising, always true The Times I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul Evening Standard A playfully serious or seriously playful novel full of wit and pleasure. Wonderful Observer Eccentric, adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read. The writing dances along Literary Review Poignant, empathetic, funny. A book full of kindness and compassion Time Out Fizzying, affectionate, sparkling. Smith presents her world view in words as fresh as lemons. A joyful read Herald A tour de force -- Lionel Shriver Financial Times A virtuoso piece of writing, both funny and gripping ... Smith is a writer with a rich array of conventional strengths Times Literary Supplement A must read Toronto NOW
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780141025193
Published: 5 Jul 2012
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 384
Dewey: 823.92

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