Dead and Alive
$33.60
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2025
Summary
Dead and Alive: Essays on Art, Life, and Loss
In this keenly awaited collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects which have captured her attention in recent years.
She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kara Walker and Celia Paul. She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about Tar, and to Glastonbury to witness the ascendance of Stormzy. She takes us on a walk down Kilburn High R…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241729601 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241729602 |
| Author: | Zadie Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 40mm |
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Critics Review
Eclectic in her tastes, centrifugal in her style, Smith as an essayist loves to stretch her frame * Financial Times *It’s hard to think of a living essayist who is better company on the page — walking you through her thoughts, curious about everything and everyone, including (unusually) the reader * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.
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