New Releases by ALI SMITH

ALI SMITH is the author of La prima persona (2010), Koritsi synanta agori (2010), Die Zufällige (2009), Tarsi (2009), The Book Lover (2008), Garota encontra garoto (2008).

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La prima persona

release date: Jan 13, 2010
La prima persona
“Tu non sei la prima persona che è stata ferita dall’amore. Non sei la prima persona che ha bussato alla mia porta. Non sei la prima persona che ho cercato di impressionare recitando brillantemente la parte della parte di quella che non si lascia impressionare. Non sei la prima persona che mi fa ridere. Non sei la prima persona che ho fatto ridere. Non sei la prima persona punto. Ma sei la persona in questo momento. E io sono la persona in questo momento. Noi siamo le persone in questo momento. E questo basta, no?”Una donna di mezz’età ha una straniante conversazione con la se stessa quattordicenne. Un’ignara cliente di un supermercato si trova nel carrello un neonato angelico e paffuto, che la investe con un fiume di insulti e oscenità. Coppie in perenne, precario equilibrio tra amore e disamore reinventano il proprio passato narrandosi primi incontri immaginari. In questi racconti, dove l''atto di raccontare è sempre più metafora di un gesto d''amore, Ali Smith riflette sulla natura stessa della short story come storia d’amore, con i suoi paradossi, le sue delicate verità, i suoi voli di fantasia. In un continuo rimescolamento del confine tra realtà e fantasia, La prima persona parla con grande naturalezza al cuore, alla testa, al corpo. Sempre giocosamente intellettuale, ma anche toccante e divertente, Ali Smith esplora le strade, le ragioni e i meccanismi universali della necessità di raccontare.Ali Smith ha un talento speciale per scoprire inaspettati lampi di bellezza e humour nella vita di tutti i giorni.“The Daily Telegraph”

Koritsi synanta agori

release date: Jan 01, 2010
Koritsi synanta agori
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold.It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.

Die Zufällige

release date: Jan 01, 2009

The Book Lover

release date: Dec 02, 2008
The Book Lover
From the acclaimed, award-winning author comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best—and without which she would not have become a writer. The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, as a child. Full of pieces from amazing writers like Sylvia Plath, Muriel Spark, Grace Paley, and Margaret Atwood, it also has a wonderful selection of lesser-known authors like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper status now, and Clarice Lispector, a Brazilian genius who''s far too underpublished. From surprising figures like Beryl the Peril, Billie Holliday, and Lee Miller to unusual selections from the most prominent writers in history, The Book Lover is an intimate, personal anthology that gives readers a glimpse of how writers develop their craft—by reading other writers.

Garota encontra garoto

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Garota encontra garoto
Em Garota encontra garoto, a premiada escritora escocesa Ali Smith atualiza com fina sensibilidade o antigo mito de Ifis. TRansportada para a Escócia e para a Inglaterra dos dias de hoje, a história da bela jovem cretense criada pela mãe como menino e transformada milagrosamente em homem às vésperas do casamento foi contada por Ovídio nas Metamorfoses. AS peripécias de Ifis remetem à liberdade do desejo e à universalidade do amor, idéias que fundamentam a trama deste romance da autora de Por acaso, também publicado pela Companhia das Letras e premiado em 2005 com o Whitbread Novel Award. Elementos de comédia shakespeareana anunciam com humor sutil o registro maravilhoso das peripécias de duas irmãs, Imogen e Anthea, cada vez mais separadas pela orientação sexual divergente e pelo conformismo da mais velha a certos preconceitos ultrapassados. ENquanto Imogen se dedica com afinco à carreira na Pura, enorme e sinistra corporação multinacional, Anthea se sente irresistivelmente atraída por Robin, codinome Ifisol, um artista de rua misterioso e andrógino. ESse desencontro, entretanto, é apenas aparente. AMbientado na pequena Inverness, cidade natal de Ali Smith, o livro retoma com ironia o tradicional tema do cinema e da música pop, boy meets girl, subvertendo-o numa fascinante história de amor entre iguais.

Hotelski svet

release date: Jan 01, 2008

The Whole Story and Other Stories

release date: Dec 18, 2007
The Whole Story and Other Stories
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he’s Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who’s built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of The Great Gatsby, Smith’s characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself.

Sunset Song

release date: Aug 30, 2007
Sunset Song
Devastated by the First World War, Chris Guthrie must confront life as a widowed single mother while managing her recently destroyed farm. Sunset Song is a powerful testament to Scotland's agricultural past and life at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Free Love

release date: Apr 12, 2007
Free Love
Libro d’esordio della talentuosissima autrice scozzese, Free Love è una raccolta che declina l’amore in una miriade di sfumature sentimentali e sensuali. Troviamo allora una teenager che perde la verginità durante un viaggio ad Amsterdam tra le braccia di una prostituta; la giovane donna che per amore della letteratura lascia al vento le pagine della sua biblioteca; i ricordi di un’ardente passione evocati da un timido fotografo; la descrizione di un’attrazione struggente, non corrisposta, che si consuma mentre scorrono sullo schermo fotogrammi dei film più celebri della storia del cinema... E così molti altri racconti che evocano il desiderio, la memoria, l’ambiguità sessuale e l’immaginazione di quel sentimento, tenero o impetuoso, per l’oggetto amato. Ali Smith ci mostra come le cose si attraggano e come si separino, come l’amore sia sempre amore, a prescindere dall’età, dal sesso o dall’ambiente nel quale vive il protagonista, perché tutti hanno il loro momento di follia.“Una raccolta dolcemente memorabile... Un talento eccezionale.” “The Times”

The Accidental

release date: Apr 10, 2007
The Accidental
Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith’s narrative freedom and exhilarating facility with language propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.

Girl Meets Boy

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Girl Meets Boy
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold.It's about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.'I love Ali Smith's work.'Jeanette Winterson, The Times'An extremely readable, easy-flowing writer and one of the subtlest and most intelligent around.'Carol Birch, Independent

Girl meets boy

release date: Jan 01, 2007

release date: Jan 01, 2007
迷
Traditional Chinese edition of The Accidental. The book was short listed by the Man Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize. A psychic / mentally unstable woman managed to manipulate each member of the Smart family vacationing in an English cottage in Norfolk. A mesmerizing read.

Atsitiktinė : [romanas]

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Nejausais

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Jag är allt du drömt

release date: Jan 01, 2006

Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s
Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s collects together some of Ali Smith's best writing of the last ten years and also includes a brand new story.

Jiné povídky a jiné povídky

release date: Jan 01, 2005

Hotell verden

release date: Jan 01, 2004

Ikisi Birden

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Other Stories and Other Stories

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Other Stories and Other Stories
A collection of short stories that share the same theme of examining the distances and connections between people.

Elec Spdsht App F/Managerial Acct-Text

release date: Aug 01, 1997

West's Internal Revenue Code O F 1986 an

release date: Jul 20, 1997

West Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and Treasury Regulations

release date: Oct 01, 1995

Electronic Spreadsheet Applications for Accounting Principles/Book and 3.5" Disk

release date: Jan 01, 1993

A tavasz

A tavasz
Richardot, a szebb napokat látott tévés és filmrendezőt megbízzák, hogy forgasson filmet Katherine Mansfieldről és Rainer Maria Rilkéről, akik 1922-ben állítólag egymásba szerettek a svájci Château Bellevue szállodában. Miután legfontosabb barátja és alkotótársa, Paddy meghal, Richard mély depresszióba zuhan, felszáll egy vonatra, és nemsokára Skóciában találja magát. A vasútállomáson a sínekre hajtja a fejét, ám egy különös kislány megakadályozza a tragédiát. Britanny egy idegenrendészeti központban dolgozik. Elterjed a pletyka, hogy egy iskolai egyenruhába öltözött kislány a szigorú biztonsági intézkedések ellenére bejutott a központba, és elérte, hogy kitakaríttassák a vécéket. Brit először kételkedik a dologban, ám hamarosan találkozik a lánnyal, aki ráveszi, hogy kísérje el Skóciába. A furcsa pár a vasútállomáson megismerkedik Richarddal, és a három idegen együtt folytatja az utat északra, hogy megkeressék Florance nevelőszüleit.
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