Featuring five people, this book focuses on these characters and traces their intersecting lives.

A masterful, exuberant novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet Five people- four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail- the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe...

Details

ISBN13: 9780140296792
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 256
Edition:
Publication Date: 25 Apr 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x1.6(W)183
Weight (gm): 183

Author Biography

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Reviews

Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her -- Jeanette Winterson