Smith, Ali  , 1962- <br/><br/>
There but for the 
/ Ali Smith 
 - New York  : Pantheon Books  , 2011 
 - 236p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780375424090 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010051377 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Middle aged men----Fiction<br/>Social interaction<br/>Dinners and dining.<br/>Identity (Psychology)----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Greenwich---London, England
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6069.M4213  / T47 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC SMI