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