New Releases by ALI SMITH

ALI SMITH is the author of The Book Lover (2008), Girl Meets Boy (2008), The First Person and Other Stories (2008), Garota encontra garoto (2008), Hotelski svet (2008).

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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.

Girl Meets Boy

release date: May 01, 2008
Girl Meets Boy
Based on Metaphorphoses by Ovid, this story is "poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world"--Flyleaf

The First Person and Other Stories

release date: Jan 01, 2008
The First Person and Other Stories
In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In “Astute Fiery Luxurious,” a fetid misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into disarray. A boy’s mysterious illness in “I Know Something You Don’t Know” drives his mother to seek guidance from homeopathic healers, with inconclusive results. In “The Child,”an unnervingly mature young boy voices offensive humor that genteel society would rather not acknowledge. And a woman meets her fourteen-year-old self but can’t figure out how to guide her--or even whether she should in “Writ.” As Smith explores the subtle links between what we know and what we feel, she creates an exuberant, masterly collection that is packed full of ideas, humor, nuance, and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story ae made for each other.

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

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.

Przypadkowa

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Atsitiktinė : [romanas]

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Nejausais

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Die Zufällige

release date: Jan 01, 2006
Die Zufällige
In die vermeintliche Harmonie einer Londoner Familie im Urlaub bricht die geheimnisvolle Amber ein, die die Probleme der Familienmitglieder beim Namen nennt und auf ihre Weise zu lösen versucht.

Jag är allt du drömt

release date: Jan 01, 2006

Voci fuori campo

release date: Sep 28, 2005
Voci fuori campo
La famiglia Smart trascorre le vacanze estive in un paesino fin troppo tranquillo nell’Ovest dell’Inghilterra. Astrid è un’adolescente scontrosa alle prese con la voglia e la paura di crescere, parla poco e usa una telecamera portatile come filtro tra lei e il mondo. Magnus, suo fratello, di qualche anno più grande, sta chiuso in camera tutto il giorno, tormentato dal senso di colpa per un segreto, una bravata che ha avuto conseguenze tragiche. Eve, la madre, è una scrittrice alle prese con un blocco espressivo che coinvolge tutto, non solo le sue creazioni artistiche. Michael, il secondo marito di Eve e padre adottivo dei ragazzi, insegna all’università e ha una passione – a volte ossessiva – per la letteratura, i giochi di parole e le sue studentesse. Una famiglia tranquilla, una famiglia disfunzionale come tante. Un giorno Ambra, una perfetta sconosciuta, bussa alla porta della loro casa di villeggiatura e si intrufola nella loro vita, sconvolgendola completamente, nel bene e nel male. Nessuno sa chi sia, nessuno glielo chiede e, nonostante i modi bruschi e l’atteggiamento strafottente, tutti l’accolgono come un angelo. Quando capiranno il suo gioco sarà troppo tardi: la vita dei quattro componenti della famiglia Smart non sarà più la stessa. E dopo questa vacanza, inaspettatamente movimentata, al rientro troveranno una sorpresa sconcertante. Un romanzo polifonico, complesso e leggero, profondo e divertente, un caleidoscopio stilistico e narrativo, e un travolgente, tonificante sense of humour.

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.

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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