“What a story it could be”: Identity and Narrative Strategy in Ali Smith’s Like

Remarking upon its dual narrative structure, muddled chronology and conflicting accounts of past events, Ali Smith described her debut novel Like as “a nasty warring book, a book of two sides” (qtd. in Murray 222). The connection made here between the “warring” nature of the novel and the opposing n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James Bailey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2010-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/652