New Releases by Ali Smith

We live with the idea of sin every day – from the greatest transgressions to the tiniest misdemeanours. But surely the concept was invented for an age where divine retribution and eternal punishment dominated the collective consciousness? In this lively collection of new writing, Nicola Barker, Dylan Evans, David Flusfeder, Todd McEwen, Martin Rowson, John Sutherland and Ali Smith go head to head with the capital vices to explore what we really mean when we talk about sin. The resulting mixture of erudite and playful essays and startling new fiction might not make you a better person, but it will certainly give you pause for thought when you’ re next laying the law down or – heaven forfend – about to do something beyond the pale yourself.

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of the bestselling Hotel World comes this stunning collection of stories set in a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. These tales are of ordinary but poignant beauty: at the pub, strangers regale each other with memories of Christmases past; lovers share tales over dinner about how they met, their former lovers, and each other; a woman even tells a story to her fourteen-year-old self. 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 are made for each other.

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating, life-affirming book. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel.

When Miles Garth locks himself in an upstairs room during a dinner party and communicates only through notes slipped under the door, his involuntary hosts beg help from childhood friend Anna, who is unwittingly thrust into the family''s surreal world. By the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Accidental.

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.

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.

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.

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”

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. 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

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.

A collection of short stories that share the same theme of examining the distances and connections between people.

Includes detailed step-by-step solutions to selected odd-numbered problems.

The book is an ideal alternative to the traditional, bulky and expensive multi-volume set of Code and Regulations. It is a perfect supplement for any West''s Federal Taxation text and is an excellent primary text for the Federal Taxation course that stresses a Code & Regulations approach. Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses, including graduate courses in law schools.

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