false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208442200m/2547263.jpg 1527854 8 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. <i>Girl Meets Boy</i> 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, <i>Girl Meets Boy</i> 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. 2554799 1 11 2007 Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (Canongate Myths) total:270|5:49|4:110|3:74|2:31|1:6| 270 975 468 65 3 1 false false Sun Nov 25 15:35:21 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 20:48:37 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 9 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 21:15:43 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 18:36:44 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 18:00:42 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 18:01:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 17:09:09 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 17:16:28 -0700 2009 1
This is one of my favorite authors - she writes in a very different style, and each of her books is different. I very much enjoyed this book which is a modern day version of the myth of Iphis (which I didn't know) but has something to do with a girl who has to be dressed as...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 12:18:40 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 21:24:10 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 02:19:33 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:57:59 -0700 2009
There were still some of the clever phrases that Ali Smith does so beautifully bu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 17:48:50 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 17:57:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:36:01 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 22 21:38:28 -0800 2009
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'let me tell you about when i was a girl, our grandfather says.'

made me snap the book shut and put it in my pile of library books. smith has a clear love of poetry, symbology, and bending grammar and gender rules, so natu...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 22 14:40:01 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 14:49:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 09 22:05:35 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 22:09:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 true false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 21:47:52 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 21:53:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 01:35:05 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 03:33:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 20:33:19 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 20:35:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 04:14:12 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 04:14:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 14:11:10 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 04:00:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 11:04:42 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 11:07:27 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 11:29:48 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 07:56:19 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2547263