A guest at a Greenwich dinner party locks himself in an upstairs bedroom and refuses to come out in Ali Smith's new four-part novel, a book that Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp calls both "agile" and "clever."
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10 best books of 2011, according to Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly picks the best nonfiction and fiction titles of 2011.
5. "There but for the," by Ali Smith
