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The Accidental - by Ali Smith (Paperback)

Name: The Accidental - by Ali Smith (Paperback)
Brand: Anchor Books
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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.
About the Author: Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.
320 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book

Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and praised for her "style, ideas, and punch" (Jeanette Winterson), Smith has produced a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, as she transfixes readers with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

WINNER OF THE WHITBRED AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

"Astonishing. . . . Vivid and affecting. . . . Wonderfully supple, jazzy." -The New York Times

"Persistently sparkling pages...of startling and clarifying emotional power. . . . It casts a spell." --The Atlantic Monthly

"Completely captivating. . . . Thoroughly charming and melodic. . . .Devilishly lovely." --The Boston Globe

"Beautifully executed. . . . A few pages [in] and you begin to remember how much fun it is to put yourself in the hands of a skilled, majestically confident writer. . . . Delightful." --The New York Observer

"Brims with wit, humor, and energy." --The Christian Science Monitor

About the Author

Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Her most recent novel, How to be both, was a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Bailey Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Costa Novel Award, and the Saltire Literary Book of the Year Award. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith lives in Cambridge, England.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 7.94 Inches (H) x 5.24 Inches (W) x .69 Inches (D)

Weight: .52 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 320

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Literary

Publisher: Anchor Books

Format: Paperback

Author: Ali Smith

Language: English

Street Date: April 10, 2007

TCIN: 1002128969

UPC: 9781400032181

Item Number (DPCI): 247-23-8654

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.69 inches length x 5.24 inches width x 7.94 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.52 pounds

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