Artful - Ali Smith

Here in book form are four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: 'On Time' 'On Form' 'On Edge' and 'On Offer and On Reflection'. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. Full of both the poignancy and humour of fiction and all the sideways insights and jaunty angles you would expect from Ali Smith's criticism it explores form style life love death mortality immortality and what art and writing can mean. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and the Orange prize and winner of the Encore Award and the Arts Council Scottish Book Award Ali Smith is one of our most interesting writers at work today. Artful shows her at her most innovative warm and generous best. 'Smith can make anything happen which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph 'She's a genius genuinely modern in the heroic glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'A true and valuable British original' Nick Hornby 'Smith's love of language lights up all her books . . . she's someone to relish' The New York Times Book Review Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of There but for the Free Love Like Hotel World Other Stories and Other Stories The Whole Story and Other Stories The Accidental Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories.

TITLE: Artful

AUTHOR: Ali Smith

SKU: 9780241145418

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 01/11/2012

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 240

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 135 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm

WEIGHT: 257 gr