A richly inventive collection of stories about our enduring love of books from the Booker Prize-shortlisted,Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Smith is dazzling in her daring. Sheer inventive power'ObserverWhy are books so powerful What do the books we read make of us And what does the vanishing of public libraries say about us These stories 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. Public libraries are places of joy,freedom,community and discovery - and they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection,Ali Smith raises her voice in defence of our public libraries,celebrating their essential place in our culture and history.'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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241974599Number of pages: 240Weight: 172 gDimensions: 197 x 129 x 15 mm
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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 makeSmith is dazzling in her daring. Sheer inventive powerAli Smith is a one-off.Her imagination and originality make her one of the most exciting novelists of her generationIn Ali Smith we have a writer whose dazzling sophistication will surely be celebrated,studied and argues over hundreds of years after we're goneSmith's world is incredibly generous - it's a place where all sorts of stories and human connections are possible
Ali Smith
Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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