Intimations, 9780241492383
Paperback
Lockdown life explored: Personal essays on connection, love, and extraordinary times.

Intimations

six essays

$13.43

  • Paperback

    96 pages

  • Release Date

    26 July 2020

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Summary

Intimations: Reflections on a World in Lockdown

An urgently timely, deeply personal, and powerfully moving series of essays on the experience of lockdown from one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.

There will be many books written about the year 2020 – historical, analytic, political, and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those. Written in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, as the global situation changed almost hourly, Intim…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241492383
ISBN-10:0241492386
Author:Zadie Smith
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:26 July 2020
Weight:72g
Dimensions:181mm x 111mm x 7mm
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Critics Review

As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one

As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one * Evening Standard *Smith has the gift that she attributed to Nabokov, years ago, of making any reader of her work feel they are engaged in a creative act, discoveringthe felicities of her writing. * i *

About The Author

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; 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.

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