Free Love And Other Stories by Ali Smith - ISBN: 9781860495847
Paperback
Desire, dislocation, and connection: unexpected love blooms in surprising places.

Free Love And Other Stories

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    26 July 1998

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Summary

A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity, and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781860495847
ISBN-10:1860495842
Author:Ali Smith
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:26 July 1998
Weight:148g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 12mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A sweetly memorable collection … A major talent - THE TIMESExquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations … A time for celebration - BERNARD MACLAVERTY

A sweetly memorable collection … A major talent - THE TIMES

Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations … A time for celebration - BERNARD MACLAVERTY

About The Author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award for FREE LOVE (Virago 1995). She lives in Cambridge and reviews regularly for SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY.

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