Public library and other stories
$32.35
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
18 July 2016
Summary
A book by one of the UK’s favourite writers about why books mean the world to us.
Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?
The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us - how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241974599 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241974593 |
| Author: | Ali Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 18 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Smith is dazzling in her daring. Sheer inventive power
Smith is dazzling in her daring. Sheer inventive power Observer Ali Smith is a one-off. Her imagination and originality make her one of the most exciting novelists of her generation Daily Express In Ali Smith we have a writer whose dazzling sophistication will surely be celebrated, studied and argues over hundreds of years after we’re gone Scotsman Smith’s world is incredibly generous - it’s a place where all sorts of stories and human connections are possible Metro
About The Author
Ali Smith
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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