Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis -- Ali Smith, Paperback

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.

Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Canongate Us
Published: 01/06/2009
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781847671868

Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 01/12/2009 pg. 69