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A STUNNING RETELLING BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ALI SMITH'Joyful' JEANETTE WINTERSON'Pulls you in and doesn't let you go . . . bold and brilliant' JACKIE KAY'A glorious wide-awake dream of a book . . . By the time I finished, my heart was beating and tears stood in my eyes, even as I had the biggest smile written all over my face' KIRSTY GUNNGirl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.
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Girl meets boy, Ali Smith
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Girl meets boy
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ali Smith
- Publisher
- Canongate
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1782116338
- ISBN13
- 9781782116332
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, LGBTQ+, Folklore & Mythology, Mythology, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+ Romance
- Original title
- Girl meets boy
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- A STUNNING RETELLING BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ALI SMITH'Joyful' JEANETTE WINTERSON'Pulls you in and doesn't let you go . . . bold and brilliant' JACKIE KAY'A glorious wide-awake dream of a book . . . By the time I finished, my heart was beating and tears stood in my eyes, even as I had the biggest smile written all over my face' KIRSTY GUNNGirl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.