There but for the
By: Ali Smith
Edition: Large print edition (1)
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781407491134
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Middle-aged men; Large type books; Interpersonal relations; Fiction; Social interaction
Description: Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out. Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever.

Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.
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