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Other Stories and other stories

Ali Smith

Paperback | Pages: 179 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 451 Users | 33 Reviews

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Original Title:	Other Stories and Other Stories
ISBN:	0141018011 (ISBN13: 9780141018010)
Edition Language:	English

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Other Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith.

Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.

'Beautifully written and quietly unsettling' Big Issue

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

'A wonderful collection; deceptively easy on one level with its whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another' Herald

'Smith breathes life into her imagined words with a true understanding of the craft of the short-story writer. She dances surely and lightly over the form' Guardian

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

'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement

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Title	:	Other Stories and other stories
Author	:	Ali Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 179 pages
Published	:	June 24th 2004 by Penguin (first published March 31st 1999)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Literary Fiction. LGBT

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Ratings: 3.95 From 451 Users | 33 Reviews

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Although I can say that Im an Ali Smith fan, I just feel that her short stories do not do her any justice. In her novels, Smith is able to expand and develop her ideas but in the short story format she doesnt come off as witty and the stories seem like good ideas that are brief and slightly forgettable.Thats all I can say really. None of these stories really stuck with me but they werent bad either, just too brief for me to like them.

Smith writes with such beautiful intensity and emotional intelligence. Her stories are both indulgently rich and nourishingly simple. When I read her, I am continually torn between finishing the book in one sitting, and the strong inspiration to get back to my own writing. One of my most inspiring modern writers. Always a joy.

Nedá sa povedať, že by ma poviedky ktovieako uchvátili, niektoré som úplne nepochopila, k niektorým som úplne indiferentná. Ale našlo sa aj zopár, ktoré ma potešili. Bolo to fajn, najväčšiu zásluhu na tom má to, že mi fakt reže ako Ali Smith píše.

There is a persistent prejudice that experimental literature, or really any literature that is conscious of form and plays with structure is something merely cerebral, read: cold and unemotional. Ali Smiths collection of stories Other Stories and other stories proves this wrong on every single of its 180 pages, almost with every single sentence even.Take the first story, gods gift a short (10 pages) evocation of a woman numbed by the loss of her lover. We never find out whether the lover left

I grabbed this after being totally captivated by "There But For The". The stream of consciousness style of that novel, with its swirl of a story and deceptively unfocussed style made me wonder how Smith would handle the nuggets of short story.It took me a few stories to get into this. A couple of the early ones, I simply didn't get. They were obviously too subtle for me, and while I enjoyed the reading experience, I was left vaguely dissatisfied. Then, about a third of the way through, something

I could read these all again and think about them more. Ali Smith's writing is easy to read, so that I am swept along faster than my thinking can go into all the resonances. The last story is about how the stories work and how they are created between writer and reader and how they relate to fragments of a continuity of people's lives interrelating in the world, through time, how they relate to inside thinking and looking outside, and to outside looking in or at.

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