Difference between revisions of "Orange Prize for Fiction 2012"

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|author=Ali Smith
 
|author=Ali Smith
 
|title=There but for the
 
|title=There but for the
|rating=Unreviewed
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|rating=4
 
|genre=Literary Fiction
 
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= We don't yet have a review of this book but we hope to have one soon.
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|summary= If you are the type of reader who thinks that the mark of a good book is a plot, then step away from this book: you'll hate it. Ali Smith's intricately clever and often funny ''There but for the'' is very much at the literary end of the fiction spectrum. Not in terms of the language used though - Smith uses simple language, and a '''LOT''' of puns, and if anything, as the title suggests, she's more interested in the little words. It's playful and strangely affecting, while at the same time a little affected and often slightly irritatingly free flowing.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241143403</amazonuk>
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241143403</amazonuk>
 
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