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Public library and other stories

Ali Smith

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English
Penguin
18 July 2016
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, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   172g
ISBN:   9780241974599
ISBN 10:   0241974593
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Public library and other stories

Publisher's description. A story collection from the peerless, multi-award-winning Ali Smith. What do we do with books - and what do they do with us? How do books shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once? And how might they remind us to pay attention to the world we make? Penguin 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


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