Girl Meets Boy

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Girl Meets Boy is a contemporary novel by Ali Smith that reimagines the myth of Iphis and Ianthe as a modern queer love story exploring gender, identity, and storytelling.

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instanceOf literary work
novel
author Ali Smith
basedOn myth of Iphis and Ianthe
basedOnWork Ovid’s Metamorphoses
surface form: Metamorphoses by Ovid
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
exploresConcept power of narrative to reshape reality
social construction of gender
featuresCharacter Anthea
Imogen
Robin
featuresRelationshipType same-sex romance
firstPublicationDate 2007
genre LGBT literature
contemporary fiction
mythic retelling
queer fiction
hasFormat audiobook
ebook
print
hasMotif corporate culture critique
environmental activism
transformation
hasStyle experimental
intertextual
lyrical
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainTheme gender
identity
love
myth and modernity
sexuality
storytelling
narrativePerspective multiple first-person narrators
notableFor exploration of fluid gender identities
playful narrative style
queer reimagining of classical myth
pageCount about 164 pages
partOfSeries Canongate Books
surface form: Canongate Myths series
publisher Canongate Books
setting Inverness
Scotland
targetAudience adult readers
themeExploredBy use of myth in a contemporary setting
workChronologyWithinAuthor later work in Ali Smith’s career

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Ali Smith notableWork Girl Meets Boy