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Girl Meets Boy.(Ovid's Metamorphoses' modern adaptation)(Brief article)
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Iphis is brought up as a boy and, on the eve of her wedding to another girl, saved from disaster when an obliging goddess agrees to change her gender. Such obvious transformation is absent from Smith's modern retelling, which is narrated in alternating chapters by Midge and Anthea Gunn, two sisters living together in a small Scottish town. Midge is an uptight executive at a bottled-water company; Anthea is her flighty younger sibling, who, to ...
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