Zusatztext A real treat . . . a leisurely browse through a writer's own bookshelves. The Times (London) Informationen zum Autor Ali Smith is the author of six works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World , which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002, and The Accidental , which won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Prize. Her story collections include Free Love , which won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Whole Story and Other Stories . Born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962, Smith now lives in Cambridge, England. Klappentext From the award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best and without which she would not have become a writer. The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, as a child. Full of pieces from amazing writers like Sylvia Plath, Muriel Spark, Grace Paley, and Margaret Atwood, it also has a wonderful selection of lesser-known authors like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper status now, and Clarice Lispector, a Brazilian genius who's far too underpublished. From surprising figures like Beryl the Peril, Billie Holliday, and Lee Miller to unusual selections from the most prominent writers in history, The Book Lover is an intimate, personal anthology that gives readers a glimpse of how writers develop their craftby reading other writers.GIRLS JANE AUSTEN Northanger Abbey Chapter 1 No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine. MARGARET ATWOOD The Poet Has Come Back . . . The poet has come back to being a poet after decades of being virtuous instead. Can't you be both? No. Not in public. You could, once, back when God was still thundering vengeance and liked the scent of blood, and hadn't got around to slippery forgiveness. Then you could scatter incense and praise, and wear your snake necklace, and hymn the crushed skulls of your enemies to a pious chorus. No deferential smiling, no baking of cookies, no I'm a nice person really. Welcome back, my dear. Time to resume our vigil, time to unlock the cellar door, time to remind ourselves that the god of poets has two hands: the dextrous, the sinister. DJUNA BARNES The Terrible Peacock It was during the dull season, when a subway accident looms as big as a Thaw getaway, that an unusual item was found loose in the coffee. Nobody seemed to know whence it had come. It dealt with a woman, one greater, more dangerous than Cleopatra, thirty-nine times as alluring as sunlight on a gold eagle, and about as elusive. She was a Peacock, said the item, which was not ill-written a slinky female with electrifying green eyes and red hair, dressed in clinging green-and-blue-silk, and she was very much observed as she moved languorously through the streets of Brooklyn. A Somebody but who? The city editor scratched his head and gave the item to Karl. Find out about her,'' he suggested. Better put a new guy on,'' said Karl. "Get the fresh angle. I got that Kinney case to look after today. What about Garvey?'' All right,'' said the city editor, and selected a fresh piece of gum. Garvey was duly impressed when Karl hove to alongside his desk and flung his leg after the item onto it, for Karl was the Star. Rather a mysterious person in a way, was Karl. His residence was an inviolable secret. He was k...

8220;A real treat . . . a leisurely browse through a writer's own bookshelves.”

—The Times (London)

Autorentext
Ali Smith is the author of six works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Prize. Her story collections include Free Love, which won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Whole Story and Other Stories. Born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962, Smith now lives in Cambridge, England.

Klappentext

From the award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best — and without which she would not have become a writer.

The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, as a child. Full of pieces from amazing writers like Sylvia Plath, Muriel Spark, Grace Paley, and Margaret Atwood, it also has a wonderful selection of lesser-known authors like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper status now, and Clarice Lispector, a Brazilian genius who's far too underpublished. From surprising figures like Beryl the Peril, Billie Holliday, and Lee Miller to unusual selections from the most prominent writers in history, The Book Lover is an intimate, personal anthology that gives readers a glimpse of how writers develop their craft—by reading other writers.

Zusammenfassung

From the acclaimed, award-winning author comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best—and without which she would not have become a writer.

The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, as a child. Full of pieces from amazing writers like Sylvia Plath, Muriel Spark, Grace Paley, and Margaret Atwood, it also has a wonderful selection of lesser-known authors like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper status now, and Clarice Lispector, a Brazilian genius who's far too underpublished. From surprising figures like Beryl the Peril, Billie Holliday, and Lee Miller to unusual selections from the most prominent writers in history, The Book Lover is an intimate, personal anthology that gives readers a glimpse of how writers develop their craft—by reading other writers.

Leseprobe
GIRLS

JANE AUSTEN

Northanger Abbey

Chapter 1

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Poet Has Come Back . . .

The poet has come back to being a poet
after decades of being virtuous instead.

Can't you be both?
No. Not in public.

You could, once,
back when God was still thundering vengeance

and liked the scent of blood,
and hadn't got around to slippery forgiveness.

Then you could scatter incense and praise,
and wear your snake necklace,

and hymn the crushed skulls of your enemies to a pious chorus.

No deferential smiling, no baking of cookies,

no I'm a nice person really.

Welcome back, my dear.
Time to resume our vigil,

time to unlock the cellar door,
time to remind ourselves

that the god of poets has two hands:
the dextrous, the sinister.

DJUNA BARNES

The Terrible Peacock

It was during the dull season, when a subway accident looms as big as a Thaw getaway, that an unusual item was found loose in the coffee.

Nobody seemed to know whence it had come. It dealt with a woman, one greater, more dangerous than Cleopatra, thirty-nine times as alluring as sunlight on a gold eagle, and about as elusive.

She was a Peacock, said the item, which was not ill-written – a slinky female with electrifying green eyes and red hair, dressed in clinging green-and-blue-silk, and she was very much observed as she moved languorously through the streets of Brooklyn. A Somebody – but who?

The city editor scratche…