Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith (2007)

Another Canongate myth. This one is cute--not brilliant but not bad at all. It's a retelling of the myth of Iphis. I wasn't familiar with this one but it made me want to read Ovid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphis). Smith, I think, also manages the most literal update of the series (that I've read so far) and it works well. The classic characters have one-to-one counterparts but Smith twists it just a bit while maintaining the original story which is intriguing. The basic plot is left unchanged but characters are added which splits the original story's relationship into two. A cute quick read with a feminist political yay! individuality and owning your sexuality and fluidity of identities bent.

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