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There but for the / Ali Smith

By:

Smith, Ali, , 1962-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books , 2011Description: 236p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780375424090

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

DDC classification:

FIC SMI

LOC classification:

PR6069.M4213 T47 2011

Summary: Here the tales swirl around an unusual event at an upscale dinner party in Greenwich, England, where guest Miles Garth disappears into an upstairs bedroom at the home of his hosts and refuses to come out for weeks. Smith, whose eight previous works of fiction include the Whitbread Award-winning The Accidental, deftly satirizes our media-saturated environment, using an oddball cast of characters to point out the difficulty we have in making genuine human connections and demonstrating how beautiful and rare it is when we actually succeed. The passage of time is a constant underlying preoccupation as well, as befits the setting-home of the Royal Observatory, which established Greenwich Mean Time.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		050080

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Here the tales swirl around an unusual event at an upscale dinner party in Greenwich, England, where guest Miles Garth disappears into an upstairs bedroom at the home of his hosts and refuses to come out for weeks. Smith, whose eight previous works of fiction include the Whitbread Award-winning The Accidental, deftly satirizes our media-saturated environment, using an oddball cast of characters to point out the difficulty we have in making genuine human connections and demonstrating how beautiful and rare it is when we actually succeed. The passage of time is a constant underlying preoccupation as well, as befits the setting-home of the Royal Observatory, which established Greenwich Mean Time.

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