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050	0	0	_aPR6069.M4213 _bT47 2011
082	0	0	_aFIC SMI
100	1		_aSmith, Ali _d, 1962-
245	1	0	_aThere but for the _c/ Ali Smith
260			_aNew York _b: Pantheon Books _c, 2011
300			_a236p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aHere 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.
650		4	_aMiddle aged men _v--Fiction
650		4	_aSocial interaction
650		0	_aDinners and dining.
650			_aIdentity (Psychology) _v--Fiction
651			_aGreenwich _z-London, England
655		0	_aPsychological fiction.
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