There But for the
Language: English
Published by Pantheon Books, 2011
- Softcover
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357 pages. Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough.Imagine that this stra nger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out.Imagine you can't move him for days, wee ks, months. If ever.This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the his toric borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Mi les, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people?Shar ply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smal lest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our ve ry human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, c liché and grace.Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book a bout time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importa nce of hearing ourselves think.…
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- Title
- There But for the
- Author
- Ali Smith
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 024114454X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241144541
- Dimensions
- 13.49cm x 2.69cm x 21.59cm
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out.
Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever.
This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people?
Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliché and grace.
Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.
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About the Author
Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Her most recent novel, How to be both, was a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Bailey Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Costa Novel Award, and the Saltire Literary Book of the Year Award. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith lives in Cambridge, England.
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