The First Person and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2008.
It contains 12 stories :-
"True Short Story" - A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard. The narrator (named Ali) rings a friend and continues the argument quoting the views of various authors and the story of Echo and Narcissus from Greek mythology.
"The Child" (online text) - A beautiful baby appears in the narrators shopping trolley; seemingly innocent it turns out to be a foul-mouthed misogynist.
"Present" (online text from The Times 24 Dec 2005) - A disjointed conversation between a barmaid, a man at the bar and the narrator
"The Third Person" - which describes differing 'beguiling scenarios' for a relationship[1]
"Fidelio and Bess" - Beethoven's opera Fidelio and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess are blended together to describe an apparently doomed love affair between two women[2]
"The History of History" (online text) - in which a schoolgirl struggles to do her history homework while her mother has a nervous breakdown
"No Exit" - The narrator watches a woman leave a cinema auditorium via the fire escape and become apparently trapped in the stairwell
"The Second Person" - Two lovers disagree after describing each other's personalities with made-up short stories, one concerning the purchase of an accordion, the other the delivery of a pretentious discourse on Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
"I Know Something You Don't Know" - A boy's mysterious illness causes his mother to ring two healers from the Yellow Pages
"Writ" - A middle-aged woman meets her fourteen-year-old self and struggles to communicate with her
"Astute Fiery Luxurious" (online text - from The Guardian) A suspect package arrives at a couples house and a series of multiple endings describe its disposal
"The First Person" - In which two lovers claim each is describing the other's reality.[3]
^Smith, Ali (2010). The First Person and Other Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 978-0307454850.
^"Midsummer Nights". www.opera.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011.
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