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''The First Person and Other Stories'' is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 2008. It contains 12 stories :- #"True Short Story" A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard. The narrator (named Ali) rings a friend and continues the argument quoting the views of various authors and the story of Echo and Narcissus from Greek mythology. #"The Child" ((online text )) A beautiful baby appears in the narrators shopping trolley; seemingly innocent it turns out to be a foul-mouthed misogynist. #"Present" ((online text ) from ''The Times'' 24 Dec 2005) A disjointed conversation between a barmaid, a man at the bar and the narrator #"The Third Person" which describes differing 'beguiling scenarios' for a relationship〔http://www.amazon.com/First-Person-Other-Stories/dp/0307454851〕 #"Fidelio and Bess" Beethoven's opera ''Fidelio'' and George Gershwin's ''Porgy and Bess'' are blended together to describe an apparently doomed love affair between two women〔http://www.opera.co.uk/view-review.php?reviewID=23&PHPSESSID=65660a26cbdaf3fece778b03e6e28072〕 #"The History of History" ((online text )) in which a schoolgirl struggles to do her history homework while her mother has a nervous breakdown #"No Exit" The narrator watches a woman leave a cinema auditorium via the fire escape and become apparently trapped in the stairwell #"The Second Person" Two lovers disagree after describing each other's personalities with made-up short stories, one concerning the purchase of an accordion, the other the delivery of a pretentious discourse on Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" #"I Know Something You Don't Know" A boy's mysterious illness causes his mother to ring two healers from the ''Yellow Pages'' #"Writ" A middle-aged woman meets her fourteen-year-old self and struggles to communicate with her #"Astute Fiery Luxurious" ((online text ) from ''The Guardian'') A suspect package arrives at a couples house and a series of multiple endings describe its disposal #"The First Person" In which two lovers claim each is describing the other's reality.〔http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article4913095.ece〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The First Person and Other Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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