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Girl meets boy : the myth of Iphis / Ali Smith.

by Smith, Ali, 1962-

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Canongate, c2007.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Characters -- Fiction

Mythology, Classical -- Fiction.

Metamorphosis -- Fiction.

Sex change -- Fiction.

9781847670199 (Canongate)

1847670199 (Canongate)

9780676978759 (Knopf Canada)

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1st American ed.

164 p. : 22 cm.

1st published: Great Britain : Cannongate Books, Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2007.

"Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But in Whitbread winner Ali Smith's lyrical, funny, mash-up of Ovid's most joyful gender-bending metamorphosis story, girl meets boy in so many more ways than one. Imogen and Anthea, sisters that are opposites, work together at Pure, a creative agency attempting to 'bottle imagination, politics, and nature' in the form of a new Scottish bottled-water business with global aspirations. Anthea, somewhat flighty and bored with the office environment, becomes enamored of an 'interventionist protest artist' nicknamed Iphisol, whose billboard-size corporate slurs around town are the bane of Pure’s existence. And when Anthea and Iphisol meet, it's a match made in heaven. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that's as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for a world made in Madison Avenue's image, and the funniest addition to The Myths series from Canongate since The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood."--Inside jacket.

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