# The First Person and Other Stories

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- Authors: [Ali Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-801-8
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2009-05-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third story that challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality, the narrator, 'Ali', drinks tea, phones a friend, and muses on the surprising similarities between a short story and a nymph... Fans of Ali Smith will be delighted, amused and moved by these stories from a writer at the very top of her game.