The fact is, imagine a man sitting on an exercise bike in a spare room.
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There but for the
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When a dinner-party guest named Miles locks himself in an upstairs room and refuses to come out, he sets off a media frenzy. He also sets in motion a mesmerizing puzzle of a novel, one that harnesses acrobatic verbal playfulness to a truly affecting story.
Miles communicates only by cryptic notes slipped under the door. We see him through the eyes of four people who barely know him, ranging from a precocious child to a confused elderly woman. But while the characters’ wit and wordplay soar, their story remains profoundly grounded. As it probes our paradoxical need for both separation and true connection, There but for the balances cleverness with compassion, the surreal with the deeply, movingly real, in a way that only Ali Smith can.
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literary fiction, psychological fiction, urban fiction, Middle-aged men, Dinners and dinning, Identity (Psychology), Personal space, Social interaction, Fiction, contemporary fiction, Dinners and dining, Strangers, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed, Large type books, Interpersonal relations, Fiction, psychological, London (england), fictionPeople
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There But For The is a 2011 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton and in the US by Pantheon, and set in 2009 and 2010 in Greenwich, London. It was cited by both The Guardian book review and the Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year. and was also longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.
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