The First Person and Other Stories
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Narrated by:
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Siobhan Redmond
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By:
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Ali Smith
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted and Baileys 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 14-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.
©2008 Ali Smith (P)2021 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"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)