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- The Whole Story and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2003 by Hamish Hamilton. It contains twelve stories :- 1.
* "The Universal Story" : A man buys up every copy of The Great Gatsby in a second-hand bookshop. The narrative focus switches between the proprietor, a 1974 Penguin edition of the book, a fly landing on it, and the man, who it transpires is buying every copy of the book he can find for his sister, who is constructing a boat out of them financed by an Arts Council grant... 2.
* "Gothic" : Gives an insight into the life of a bookshop clerk and the eccentricities of the customers and how she deals with them. 3.
* "Being Quick" : A traveller returning home sees Death on the concourse of King's Cross station; later, a fatality on the line delays the train and the traveller decides to walk the remainder of the journey but cannot phone home as her mobile phone has died... 4.
* "May": A woman falls hopelessly in love with a neighbour's tree... 5.
* "Paradise" : Follows the live of three Scottish sisters; one a shift manager in a fast-food restaurant (who single-handedly foils an armed raid); the second is a hostess on a boat taking day-trips on Loch Ness and the third is drunk in a cemetery vandalising angels. 6.
* "Erosive" : An Apple tree is infested with aphids, the owner falls in love... 7.
* "The Book Club" :A young girl borrows books from a bookseller, reading them carefully so they can still be sold; later her mother joins a book club... 8.
* "Believe Me" :A woman admits to her female lover that she is married and spends her days with her husband. Her lover then admits she is also having an affair with him... 9.
* "Scottish Love Songs" : An elderly lady is haunted by a Pipe Band who continually march through her house playing, rendering her all but deaf... 10.
* "The Shortlist Season" : A young woman believes herself to be allergic to modern art... 11.
* "The Heat of the Story" : Three drunk women stagger into Midnight Mass... 12.
* "The Start of Things" : A lover is locked out on a cold winter night... (en)
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- First edition (en)
- with quote from Jeanette Winterson (en)
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- The Whole Story and Other Stories (en)
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- The Whole Story and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2003 by Hamish Hamilton. It contains twelve stories :- 1.
* "The Universal Story" : A man buys up every copy of The Great Gatsby in a second-hand bookshop. The narrative focus switches between the proprietor, a 1974 Penguin edition of the book, a fly landing on it, and the man, who it transpires is buying every copy of the book he can find for his sister, who is constructing a boat out of them financed by an Arts Council grant... 2.
* "Gothic" : Gives an insight into the life of a bookshop clerk and the eccentricities of the customers and how she deals with them. 3.
* "Being Quick" : A traveller returning home sees Death on the concourse of King's Cross st (en)
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