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Girl Meets Boy

Pages
224
Published
2007
Language
English

Synopsis

Ali Smith reimagines Ovid's joyful metamorphosis for a contemporary world where an ancient story meets new circumstances. This tale explores the fluidity of identity, love, and transformation, moving between girls and boys, and girls and girls. It is a fresh, poetic, and political narrative filled with puns, doubles, reversals, and revelations.

About the author

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Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), wh...

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All characters in Girl Meets Boy