There But For The: novel
โ Scribed by Smith, Ali
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307379981
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles' story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing is, none of these people knows Miles more than slightly. How much is it possible for us to know about a stranger? And what are the consequences of even the most casual, fleeting moments we share every day with one another?
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
***There but for the* is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith** 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .'