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Free Love and Other Stories
Ali Smith
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Description for Free Love and Other Stories
Paperback. The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
155g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860495847
SKU
V9781860495847
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99-99
About Ali Smith
Ali Smith was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of three collections of stories and three novels. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001 and her latest novel, The Accidental, won the 2006 Whitbread Novel Award. Ali reviews regularly for the Guardian, the Scotsman and the TLS. ... Read more
Reviews for Free Love and Other Stories
A sweetly memorable collection ... A major talent
THE TIMES
A sweetly memorable collection ... A major talent
THE TIMES
Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations ... A time for celebration
BERNARD MACLAVERTY
Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations ... A time for celebration
BERNARD MACLAVERTY
THE TIMES
A sweetly memorable collection ... A major talent
THE TIMES
Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations ... A time for celebration
BERNARD MACLAVERTY
Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations ... A time for celebration
BERNARD MACLAVERTY