ISBN: 1101605839 9781101605837

Category: Literary Collections / Essays

Page count: 256

<b>“A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction” (<i>The New Yorker</i>) from the incomparable Ali Smith</b><br><br><i>Artful</i> is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world—it is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. A magical hybrid that refuses to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, <i>Artful</i> is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. Ali Smith’s heady powers as a novelist and short story writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate.