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I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annee erotique was only thirty aircushioned minutes away and everything went at twice the speed of sound. I opened my eyes. It was all in colour. It didn't look like Kansas anymore. The students were on the barricades, the mode was maxi, the Beatles were transcendental. It was Britain. It was great
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The Accidental, Ali Smith
- Language
- Released
- 2005
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The Accidental
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ali Smith
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 306
- ISBN10
- 0241141907
- ISBN13
- 9780241141908
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Scotland, 21st Century, Booker Prize
- Description
- I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annee erotique was only thirty aircushioned minutes away and everything went at twice the speed of sound. I opened my eyes. It was all in colour. It didn't look like Kansas anymore. The students were on the barricades, the mode was maxi, the Beatles were transcendental. It was Britain. It was great