Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious, exhilaratingly sharp-eyed . . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh

Sunday Telegraph

Joyous, a shot across the bows . . . writing as rapture, as giddy delight

The Times

An astonishing book - funny and moving, playful and shocking. It is what one hopes for in a modern novel, and yet it confounds all expectations. It is complex. It is beautiful. It is exhilarating. It is fiction at its most artful <i> </i>

Financial Times

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A beguiling page-turner ... a brilliant creation. To read <i>The Accidental</i> is to be excited from first to last

Independent

Smith's novels fizz with pyrotechnic prose, whirl-wind openings, bewitching invention

Observer

Exuberantly inventive ... at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark

Sunday Times

'My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the café of the town's only cinema . . .'One hot summer a stranger arrives at the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family. Intriguing, beguiling, arresting, Amber brings love, joy, pain and not a little upheaval, throwing the carefully ordered world of the Smarts into the air. They will be forever changed by Amber but how will they know whether it is for the bad, the good or something else entirely?'Joyous ... writing as rapture, as giddy delight' The Times'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' Observer
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Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious, exhilaratingly sharp-eyed . . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh
The award-winning novel by Booker-shortlistee Ali Smith, now a Penguin Essential.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241989111
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
176 gr
Høyde
181 mm
Bredde
111 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter

Biographical note

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.