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2009 Nominated

Girl Meets Boy

Ali Smith

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Ali Smith’s re-mix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can’t be bottled and sold.
It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.
Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.

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Ali-Smith (2015) c. Sarah-Wood

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.

 

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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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

A fascinating retelling of Ovid’s myth.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Scotland
Original Language
English
Author
Ali Smith
Publisher
Canongate Books

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