# The First Person and Other Stories

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- Authors: [Ali Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 3 h 53 min
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-293-7
- Published: 2021-02-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 3 h 53 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, we see a narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones in equal measure. One-of-a-kind Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. 'A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form' Independent ' Hurrah for Ali Smith. The best short-story writers make it look as easy as making a cup of tea. Ali Smith is one of these... A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is ' The Times © Ali Smith 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2021