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More on Books & Critics from The Atlantic Monthly. More on Fiction & Poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. Contents | January/February 2006 From the archives:
"Gender-Neutral"
(May 2004)
Also by Joseph O'Neill:
"New Fiction"
(December 2005)
"New Fiction"
(October 2005)
"New Fiction"
(September 2005)
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Books & Critics The Accidental by Ali Smith Pantheon
Joseph O'Neill is a novelist whose most recent book is Blood-Dark Track: A Family History. Copyright © 2006 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; January/February 2006; New fiction; Volume 297, No. 1 |
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he ordinarily attentive reader can be forgiven for having lost Ali Smith in the fireworks of publicity accorded her near-homonymous compatriots Monica Ali and Zadie Smith. But now, with the publication of (Ali) Smith's bewitching third novel (which, like her second, Hotel World, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), there can be no mistaking her talent for anyone else's—and theirs, at the risk of being invidious, may often seem squiblike by comparison with what's on offer in these persistently sparkling pages.
