Intimations
six essays
$18.39
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
26 July 2020
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 |
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| 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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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 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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