The Accidental
Ali Smith$12.75
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Filled with Ali Smith's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family's summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts--parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid--encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith's narrative freedom and exhilarating facility with language propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 04/10/2007
ISBN: 9781400032181
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.24w x 0.69d
Review Citations: New York Times 04/22/2007 pg. 32