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The First Person and Other Stories is a sh … The First Person and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2008. It contains 12 stories :- 1.
* "True Short Story" A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard. The narrator (named Ali) rings a friend and continues the argument quoting the views of various authors and the story of Echo and Narcissus from Greek mythology. 2.
* "The Child" (online text) A beautiful baby appears in the narrators shopping trolley; seemingly innocent it turns out to be a foul-mouthed misogynist. 3.
* "Present" (online text from The Times 24 Dec 2005) A disjointed conversation between a barmaid, a man at the bar and the narrator 4.
* "The Third Person" which describes differing 'beguiling scenarios' for a relationship 5.
* "Fidelio and Bess" Beethoven's opera Fidelio and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess are blended together to describe an apparently doomed love affair between two women 6.
* "The History of History" (online text) in which a schoolgirl struggles to do her history homework while her mother has a nervous breakdown 7.
* "No Exit" The narrator watches a woman leave a cinema auditorium via the fire escape and become apparently trapped in the stairwell 8.
* "The Second Person" Two lovers disagree after describing each other's personalities with made-up short stories, one concerning the purchase of an accordion, the other the delivery of a pretentious discourse on Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" 9.
* "I Know Something You Don't Know" A boy's mysterious illness causes his mother to ring two healers from the Yellow Pages 10.
* "Writ" A middle-aged woman meets her fourteen-year-old self and struggles to communicate with her 11.
* "Astute Fiery Luxurious" (online text from The Guardian) A suspect package arrives at a couples house and a series of multiple endings describe its disposal 12.
* "The First Person" In which two lovers claim each is describing the other's reality.im each is describing the other's reality.
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* "True Short Story" A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard. The narrator (named Ali) rings a friend and continues the argument quoting the views of various authors and the story of Echo and Narcissus from Greek mythology. 2.
* "The Child" (online text) A beautiful baby appears in the narrators shopping trolley; seemingly innocent it turns out to be a foul-mouthed misogynist. 3.
* "Present" (online text from The Times 24 Dec 2005) A disjointed conversation between a barmaid, a man at the bar and the narrator 4.
* "The Third Person" which describes 4.
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