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The First Person and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2008.It contains 12 stories :-"True Short Story" A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits Read More..

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Description	The First Person and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2008.It contains 12 stories :-"True Short Story" A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard. The narrator (named Ali) rings a friend and continues the argument quoting the views of various authors and the story of Echo and Narcissus from Greek mythology."The Child" ( online text) A beautiful baby appears in the narrators shopping trolley; seemingly innocent it turns out to be a foul-mouthed misogynist."Present" ( online text from The Times 24 Dec 2005) A disjointed conversation between a barmaid, a man at the bar and the narrator"The Third Person" which describes differing 'beguiling scenarios' for a relationship"Fidelio and Bess" Beethoven's opera Fidelio and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess are blended together to describe an apparently doomed love affair between two women"The History of History" ( online text) in which a schoolgirl struggles to do her history homework while her mother has a nervous breakdown"No Exit" The narrator watches a woman leave a cinema auditorium via the fire escape and become apparently trapped in the stairwell"The Second Person" Two lovers disagree after describing each other's personalities with made-up short stories, one concerning the purchase of an accordion, the other the delivery of a pretentious discourse on Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket""I Know Something You Don't Know" A boy's mysterious illness causes his mother to ring two healers from the Yellow Pages"Writ" A middle-aged woman meets her fourteen-year-old self and struggles to communicate with her"Astute Fiery Luxurious" ( online text from The Guardian) A suspect package arrives at a couples house and a series of multiple endings describe its disposal"The First Person" In which two lovers claim each is describing the other's reality.
Description	The First Person and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2008.It contains 12 stories :-"True Short Story" A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard. The narrator (named Ali) rings a friend and continues the argument quoting the views of various authors and the story of Echo and Narcissus from Greek mythology."The Child" ( online text) A beautiful baby appears in the narrators shopping trolley; seemingly innocent it turns out to be a foul-mouthed misogynist."Present" ( online text from The Times 24 Dec 2005) A disjointed conversation between a barmaid, a man at the bar and the narrator"The Third Person" which describes differing 'beguiling scenarios' for a relationship"Fidelio and Bess" Beethoven's opera Fidelio and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess are blended together to describe an apparently doomed love affair between two women"The History of History" ( online text) in which a schoolgirl struggles to do her history homework while her mother has a nervous breakdown"No Exit" The narrator watches a woman leave a cinema auditorium via the fire escape and become apparently trapped in the stairwell"The Second Person" Two lovers disagree after describing each other's personalities with made-up short stories, one concerning the purchase of an accordion, the other the delivery of a pretentious discourse on Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket""I Know Something You Don't Know" A boy's mysterious illness causes his mother to ring two healers from the Yellow Pages"Writ" A middle-aged woman meets her fourteen-year-old self and struggles to communicate with her"Astute Fiery Luxurious" ( online text from The Guardian) A suspect package arrives at a couples house and a series of multiple endings describe its disposal"The First Person" In which two lovers claim each is describing the other's reality.

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Name	The First Person and Other Stories
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Authors	Ali Smith
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	224
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Isbn	0-241-14426-4
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Publisher	Hamish Hamilton (UK)Pantheon (US)
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