Artful

Product Description

Both heartfelt fiction concerning a character haunted by a dead lover, and dazzling essay on literature and art, Artful is Ali Smith's extraordinary exploration of life, love and writing.

Winner of the Foyles/Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize 2013

'Smart, allusive, informal, playful, audacious. It is totally seductive.' Independent on Sunday

'Brilliant and moving.' Evening Standard, Book of the Year

'Engrossing, funny. A kind of magic - artful, witty and wise, Smith, like Hermes, like the Dodger, makes a charming, elusive companion.' Daily Telegraph

'Audacious, acrobatic prose that somehow also manages to be heartbreaking.' Financial Times

'Imagine a boozy, free-associating dinner party with (among many others) the surrealists, Katherine Mansfield, W. G. Sebald, Lee Miller, Shakespeare, Forster, Colette, Pasternak, Jackie Kay and Freud . . .A wonderful, deeply original book.' Julie Myerson, Observer

'If you're interested in writing and literature this is a treasure.' Daily Express