Myths Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis, (Paperback)

from RandyMetcalfe

Ali Smith retells, or re-imagines, the Iphis and Ianthe tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses, locating it in contemporary Inverness, Scotland. She breathes new life into the myth by allowing Iphis to retain his/her female nature. For Smith, there is no need for the gods to rescue this"Iphis" from the h...

from Cariola

Sisters Imogen and Anthea both work for Pure, a Scottish bottled water corporation. While Imogen anxiously competes with her male co-workers on the creative team, Anthea would prefer to be anywhere else. Leaving work early one day, Anthea encounters the most beautiful boy she has ever seen . . . ...

from jmx

Fragments and some unrelated scenes tolds in the first person by two sisters.Ali Smith surprises from the beginning, she is able of "writing" the story inside our heads, more than in the paper lines, she has a soft, natural, queer approach, evoking almost automatically Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"....

from scohva

A modern version of the myth of Iphis, originally found in Ovid's Metamorphoses. This version deals a little bit with fluidity of gender as well as the modern corporate world. Written in a semi-stream of consciousness style, this short book had a dreamlike quality to it that I liked very much. Ho...

from shalulah

Ali Smith's style grows on me with each book I read. This slim volume plumbs the depths & scales the heights in a voice uniquely Ali Smith's own. I love her writing, it's like puzzle pieces, putting together a feeling.