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

from The Astonishingly Talented Writer Of the Accidental and hotel World comes Ali Smith’s Brilliant Retelling Of Ovid’s Gender-bending Myth Of Iphis And Ianthe, As Seen Through The Eyes Of Two Scottish Sisters. girl Meets Boy is About Girls And Boys, Girls And Girls, Love And Transformation, And The Absurdity Of Consumerism, As Well As A Story Of Reversals And Revelations That Is 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 Margaret Atwood’s the Penelopiad. publishers Weekly veteran British Novelist Smith Returns From 2006's Whitbread Award-winner the Accidental with A Cheerful, Sexy, Disorienting Take On The Gender-shifting Myths Of Iphis (as Told In Ovid's metamorphoses ) . fragile, Rootless Anthea Arrives At The Inverness, Scotland, Offices Of The Slick, Multibrand Corporate Behemoth Pure, Where Her Up-and-coming Sister Midge Has Gotten Her A Job. Raised On Their Grandfather's Strange Stories Of Rebellion And Gender Switching, The Sisters Undergo Very Different Transformations When Confronting Pure Oblivion, The Corporation's Goal Of Being Simultaneously Ubiquitous And Invisible. Drifting At Work, Anthea Meets Kilt-clad Graffiti Artist Robin, Who Awakens Destructive Passions Within Her. Midge, Meanwhile, Is Summoned To Pure's London Headquarters By Keith, The Charismatic Boss Of Bosses, And Her Meeting With Him Sets Her On An Unexpected Course With The Company. Smith's Spare And Sharp Lyricism Makes The Action Secondary, But The Ironies That Arise From The Corporate Setting For A Very Old Myth Are Handled With Glee (including Jabs At Water Supply Privatization), And Smith's Cadences, Which Read Like Classical Drama, Carry The Novel Along Beautifully. (jan.) copyright 2007 Reed Business Information General Adult. 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 Avenues image, and the funniest addition to The Myths series from Canongate since The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 'Girl Meets Boy' is a novel from the pen of Ali Smith, author of 'Free Love', 'Like', and 'The Accidental'. Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world. A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid's Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both A dazzling piece of storytelling from one of Britain's most brilliant writers