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The Whole Story and Other Stories
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  • Published: 24 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140296808
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

The Whole Story and Other Stories

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24 June 2004
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11 Feb 2021
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Ali Smith is a literary icon, the author of the recent sister novels Gliff and Glyph, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize four times and has most recently won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for Summer.

A brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author.

Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to . . . How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence? In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar.
  • Published: 24 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140296808
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Ali Smith

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.
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Also by Ali Smith

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