EPISODE · Feb 11, 2021 · 5 MIN
The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
from Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host csanders
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Person and Other Stories Author: Ali Smith Narrator: Siobhan Redmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 11, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, we see a narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones in equal measure. One-of-a-kind Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. 'A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form' Independent 'Hurrah for Ali Smith. The best short-story writers make it look as easy as making a cup of tea. Ali Smith is one of these... A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is' The Times © Ali Smith 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Person and Other Stories Author: Ali Smith Narrator: Siobhan Redmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 11, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, we see a narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones in equal measure. One-of-a-kind Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. 'A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form' Independent 'Hurrah for Ali Smith. The best short-story writers make it look as easy as making a cup of tea. Ali Smith is one of these... A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is' The Times © Ali Smith 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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