The Whole Story and Other Stories

Ali Smith

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Penguin
24 June 2004

Fiction & Literature; Short stories

Ali Smith's most recent novel, Hotel World, was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002.

A brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author.

Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to . . . How do you ever know the whole story?

How do you ever know even part of the story?

How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence?

In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar.

By: Ali Smith
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 162g
ISBN: 9780140296808
ISBN 10: 0140296808
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 June 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first collection of stories, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. Her first novel, Like, was published in 1997, and her second collection of stories, Other Stories and Other Stories, in 1999. Her prize-winning novel Hotel World was published in 2001.

Reviews for The Whole Story and Other Stories

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