Free Love And Other Stories
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Free Love And Other Stories
By (Author) Ali Smith
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
27th July 1998
4th June 1998
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.914
Winner of Saltire Literary Award 1995
Physical Properties
Paperback
160
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 12mm
148g
Description
A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
Reviews
'A sweetly memorable collection ... A major talent' THE TIMES 'Exquisitely delicate, unsentimental observations ... A time for celebration' BERNARD MACLAVERTY
Author Bio
Ali Smith won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award for FREE LOVE (Virago 1995). She lives in Cambridge and reviews regularly for SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY.
