Book description
Other Stories and Other Stories
is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith.
Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and
exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances
and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly
inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so
necessary, so moving or so joyous.
'Beautifully written and quietly unsettling' Big Issue
'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent
'A wonderful collection; deceptively easy on one level with its
whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story,
and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they
unfold from and into one another' Herald
'Smith breathes life into her imagined words with a true
understanding of the craft of the short-story writer. She dances
surely and lightly over the form' Guardian
'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane'
Sunday Times
'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement
Ali Smith is the author of novels Girl Meets Boy,
Like, The Accidenta
l, Hotel World and There but for the. She has
published the short story collections The First Person and Other
Stories, Free Love and Other Stories, Other Stories and Other
Stories and The Whole Story and Other Stories. She has been
twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, twice nominated for the
Orange Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year in 2005.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She
is the author of Free Love, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel
World and The Whole Story and Other Stories.
