Other Stories and Other Stories

Dec 27, 2024 7:51 PM

Author:Ali Smith

A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet

'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent

Individually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together.

In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith's storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.

*****

'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane'Sunday Times

'These stories fizz with life'The Times Literary Supplement

Reviews

'there is the sublime sweep of McCabe's craggy cadences to sustain you, and he takes an ingenious delight in the mechanics of language'.

—— Alfred Hickling , Guardian

The scenes Denezhkina paints are vividly hued, juicy and mouthwateringly acid... A promising start... Exhilirating

—— New York Times

Irina is the heroine of a generation whose parents were orphaned by Socialism. She has learned a harsh and pitiless version of Capitalism: 'No one owes anybody anything' is the obsessive mantra of her characters

—— La Stampa

Travel writer, biographer, novelist, essayist... Pritchett looks protean, but really his genius is indivisible. He is a teller of stories

—— Martin Amis

Pacy, pithy and full of wonderful, (often humorous) moments

—— Scotsman

Spine-chilling twists and turns - Graham Greene eat your heart out

—— Tatler

Darien Dogs is a bullishly confident and vivacious collection

—— Time Out

Beautifully paced and pitched

—— Independent

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