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The Accidental
by Smith, Ali
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0141010398
- ISBN 13
- 9780141010397
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London, Eng: Penguin Books, 2006. Book. Very Good+. Trade Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Thus. First printing as evidenced by the numeral "1" printed on the verso of the title page; signed by Ali Smith on the title page with no inscription; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition..
Synopsis
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing "thrilling." Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her "style, ideas, and punch." Here, in a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, she transfixes us with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor.Amber--thirtysomething and barefoot--shows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. She talks her way in. She tells nothing but lies. She stays for dinner.Eve Smart, the author of a best-selling series of biographical reconstructions, thinks Amber is a student with whom her husband, Michael, is sleeping. Michael, an English professor, knows only that her car broke down. Daughter Astrid, age twelve, thinks she's her mother's friend. Son Magnus, age seventeen, thinks she's an angel.As Amber insinuates herself into the family, the questions of who she is and how she's come to be there drop away. Instead, dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the Smarts begin to examine the accidents of their lives through the searing lens of Amber's perceptions. When Eve finally banishes her from the cottage, Amber disappears from their sight, but not--they discover when they return home to London--from their profoundly altered lives.Fearlessly intelligent and written with an irresistible blend of lyricism and whimsy, The Accidental is a tour de force of literary improvisation that explores the nature of truth, the role of chance, and the transformative power of storytelling.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003793
- Title
- The Accidental
- Author
- Smith, Ali
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0141010398
- ISBN 13
- 9780141010397
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London, Eng
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- British Fiction
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