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The accidental

"I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multistorey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump-jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad ..."

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  • "Accidental"@pl
  • "Accidental"

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  • "Traditional Chinese edition of The Accidental. The book was short listed by the Man Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize. A psychic / mentally unstable woman managed to manipulate each member of the Smart family vacationing in an English cottage in Norfolk. A mesmerizing read."
  • "I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annee erotique was only thirty aircushioned minutes away and everything went at twice the speed of sound. I opened my eyes. It was all in colour. It didn't look like Kansas anymore. The students were on the barricades, the mode was maxi, the Beatles were transcendental. It was Britain. It was great"
  • ""I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multistorey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump-jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad ...""@en
  • "A thought-provoking novel about a chance encounter that irrevocably changes a family's understanding of itself."
  • "I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annee erotique was only thirty aircushioned minutes away and everything went at twice the speed of sound. I opened my eyes. It was all in colour. It didn't look like Kansas anymore. The students were on the barricades, the mode was maxi, the Beatles were transcendental. It was Britain. It was great."@en
  • "'The Accidental' is the follow-up novel to 'Hotel World', which was shortlisted for the Booker and Orange prizes in 2002. Ali Smith's other novels include 'Free Love', 'Like', 'Other Stories and Other Stories' and 'The Whole Story and Other Stories'."@en
  • ""The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family's summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts-parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid-encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith's exhilarating facility with language, her narrative freedom, and her chromatic wordplay propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion. Ali Smith's acclaimed novel won the prestigious Whitbread Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize."--Publisher's website."
  • "Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There, a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling."
  • "Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic con artist, insinuates herself into the lives of Eve, her husband Michael, and their children."@en
  • "Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic con artist, insinuates herself into the lives of Eve, her husband Michael, and their children."
  • "Astrid's mother, Eve, is supposed to be writing the next in her series of "Genuine Articles", books that relate the lives of people who died in the second world war, but then carry on as though they had lived - which enables Smith to make some nice jokes at the expense of the biography industry. Eve's husband, Michael, is a philandering university teacher of literature; her son Magnus, thinks in mathematical terms and has done something terrible at school. Into this atomised family one day walks Amber, a thirtysomething blonde wastrel with no love of social niceties. She turns up on the doorstep claiming her car has broken down. Michael assumes she has come to interview Eve, while Eve assumes she is one of Michael's student mistresses; somehow Amber ends up staying with them in the rented cottage for several weeks. Everyone falls in love with Amber in a different way. But who is she, and what does she want?"@en
  • "Astrid's mother, Eve, is supposed to be writing the next in her series of "Genuine Articles", books that relate the lives of people who died in the second world war, but then carry on as though they had lived - which enables Smith to make some nice jokes at the expense of the biography industry. Eve's husband, Michael, is a philandering university teacher of literature; her son Magnus, thinks in mathematical terms and has done something terrible at school. Into this atomised family one day walks Amber, a thirtysomething blonde wastrel with no love of social niceties. She turns up on the doorstep claiming her car has broken down. Michael assumes she has come to interview Eve, while Eve assumes she is one of Michael's student mistresses; somehow Amber ends up staying with them in the rented cottage for several weeks. Everyone falls in love with Amber in a different way. But who is she, and what does she want?"
  • "The accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There, a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate, and the power of storytelling."@en
  • "Amber is the catalyst who makes the novel happen. She appears on the doorstep of the Smart's rented summer cottage in Norfolk, England, barefoot and unexpected. Eve Smart, a third-rate author suffering writer's block, believes that she is a friend of her husband's. Michael is a womanizing University professor, but he doesn't usually drag his quarry home. He thinks that she must be a friend of Eve's. Everyone is politely confused and Amber is invited to dinner. She is a consummate liar and manipulator who manages to seduce everyone in the family in some significant way."@en
  • "Les Smart passent leurs vacances dans un village du Norfolf. Magnus, 17 ans, reste cloîtré dans sa chambre suite à un drame dont il se sent responsable. Astrid, 12 ans, est une adolescente perturbée qui ne pense qu'à filmer ce qui l'entoure. Eve, 42 ans, auteur de best-sellers, rêve d'une autre vie. Michaël, son second mari, collectionne les conquêtes. Une femme, Ambre, va les révéler à eux-mêmes."
  • "The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family's summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts'parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid'encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to se their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith's exhilarating facility with language, her narrative freedom, and her chromatic wordplay propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion. Ali Smith's acclaimed novel won the prestigious Whitbread Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en

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  • "English fiction"@he
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "LGBT"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "General"
  • "Sagas"@en
  • "Sagas"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Lesbian & Gay"
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@he

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  • "The Accidental"
  • "המקרית"
  • "The accidental"
  • "The accidental"@en
  • "ha-Miḳrit"
  • "Mi = The accidental"
  • "迷 = The accidental"
  • "Voci fuori campo"@it
  • "Voci fuori campo"
  • "De toevallige"
  • "Mi"
  • "Ē tychaia : mythistorēma"
  • "Die Zufällige Roman"
  • "Przypadkowa"@pl
  • "Przypadkowa"
  • "En fremmed banker på : roman"@da
  • "En fremmed banker på : roman"
  • "Die Zufällige : Roman"
  • "Slučajno"
  • "Jag är allt du drömt"
  • "Jag är allt du drömt"@sv
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Accidental"@es
  • "迷"
  • "Accidental"@en
  • "The accidental : [a novel]"
  • "Sluchaĭno"
  • "La Loi de l'accident"
  • "Satunnainen"@fi

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