9781847670199

Girl Meets Boy

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781847670199

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Overview

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But in Whitbread winner Ali Smith's lyrical, funny, mash-up of Ovid's most joyful gender-bending metamorphosis story, girl meets boy in so many more ways than one. Imogen and Anthea, sisters that are opposites, work together at Pure, a creative agency attempting to "bottle imagination, politics, and nature" in the form of a new Scottish bottled-water business with global aspirations. Anthea, somewhat flighty and bored with the office environment, becomes enamored of an "interventionist protest artist" nicknamed Iphisol, whose billboard-size corporate slurs around town are the bane of Pure's existence. And when Anthea and Iphisol meet, it's a match made in heaven. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that's as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for a world made in Madison Avenue's image, and the funniest addition to The Myths series from Canongate since The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

ISBN-13

9781847670199

ISBN-10

1847670199

Weight

0.60 Pounds

Dimensions

5.00 x 0.50 x 7.75 In

List Price

$18.00

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

176 pages

Publisher

Canongate U.S.

Published On

2007-12-21



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