Public Library and Other Stories by Smith, Ali

Public Library and Other Stories

From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read...
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Author: Ali Smith
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Public Library and Other Stories by Smith, Ali

Public Library and Other Stories

$42.28

Public Library and Other Stories

$42.28
Author: Ali Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the acclaimed, award-winning author: 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 unraveling 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.

Woven between the stories are conversations with writers and readers reflecting on the essential role that libraries have played in their lives. At a time when public libraries around the world face threats of cuts and closures, this collection stands as a work of literary activism--and as a wonderful read from one of our finest authors.

Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/04/2016
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781101973042


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2016 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016
Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 98
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2016
Booklist 09/15/2016 pg. 24
Library Journal 05/15/2016

About the Author
Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Her most recent novel, How to be both, was a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Bailey Women's Prize, the Goldsmith Prize, the Costa Novel Award, and the Saltire Literary Book of the Year Award. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith lives in Cambridge, England.


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