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Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101101973048

ISBN-139781101973042

eBay Product ID (ePID)221535715

Product Key Features

Book TitlePublic Library and Other Stories

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year2016

GenreFiction

AuthorAli Smith

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-021974

Reviews"Thank goodness for Ali Smith, for who else could write a short story collection about libraries and make it wild." -- The Times (London) "A series of wonderful stories on the power of books." --Mary Beard, The Guardian (Best Books of the Year) "Extraordinarily artful. . . . A triumph." -- The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Smith's own stories leap across space and time, delighting in unexpected connections. . . . Each of Smith's stories is a gem." -- Financial Times "A work of endless interventions. . . . Smith's great talent is her ability to produce on the page the effect of a human voice." --Ian Samson, The Guardian (London) "An important book." -- The Independent (Books of the Year) "Superb. . . . [A] wonderful collection. . . . It has been Smith's unlikely triumph throughout her increasingly acclaimed career to combine a playful and experimental approach with material that is both moving and funny--and she has done it again." -- Daily Mail "There are sentences that sing, or make you smile, and the conceit behind each of the stories is distinctively offbeat." -- The Herald (Glasgow) "Spritely, poignant. . . . Magical. . . . Alive to the ability words have to garland a life and make the ordinary bloom into something fresh and funny." -- Mail on Sunday (London) "Reading this collection is like spending an afternoon in a well-stocked library in the company of an erudite and playful companion." -- The Daily Telegraph (London) "Smith's stories are so good as to be priceless." -- Sunday Express (London) "Beautiful. . . . Wonderful. Her prose dances. Her imagination lights up life and experience. This is a book to read slowly, to savour its vitality and variety, one to return to and find new pleasures with each reading." -- The Scotsman "Endearing and affecting. The extraordinary is always rooted in the corporeal . . . and this lends Smith's voice much of its considerable charm. . . . The narration is often arch, winking at you from the pages, rightfully proud of its own showmanship and subtlety, and is fundamentally human." -- The London Magazine "A brilliant, comprehensive, unpredictable defence of public libraries. You can travel anywhere on Ali Smith's library ticket." --Kate Kellaway, The Guardian (London) "Powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . A gentle, comforting, and thought-provoking read. . . . It is a blessing to have authors such as Ali Smith." -- Stylist "Smith's world is incredibly generous--it's a place where all sorts of stories and human connections are possible." -- Metro "A series of spirited short stories, in an ingenious blend of fact and fiction. . . . The result is a love-song to literature that all readers will delight in dipping in and out of." --Lucy Brooks, Culture Whisper "A moving, surprising, beautiful collection. . . . So clever and so joyful." -- Open Democracy, "Thank goodness for Ali Smith, for who else could write a short story collection about libraries and make it wild." -- The Times (London) "A series of wonderful stories on the power of books." --Mary Beard, The Guardian (Best Books of the Year) "Extraordinarily artful. . . . A triumph." -- The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Smith's own stories leap across space and time, delighting in unexpected connections. . . . Each of Smith's stories is a gem." -- Financial Times "A work of endless interventions. . . . Smith's great talent is her ability to produce on the page the effect of a human voice." -- The Guardian (London) "An important book." -- The Independent (Books of the Year) "Superb. . . . [A] wonderful collection. . . . It has been Smith's unlikely triumph throughout her increasingly acclaimed career to combine a playful and experimental approach with material that is both moving and funny--and she has done it again." -- Daily Mail "There are sentences that sing, or make you smile, and the conceit behind each of the stories is mischievously offbeat." -- The Herald "Spritely, poignant. . . . Magical. . . . Alive to the ability words have to garland a life and make the ordinary bloom into something fresh and funny." -- Mail on Sunday "Reading this collection is like spending an afternoon in a well-stocked library in the company of an erudite and playful companion." -- Daily Telegraph "Smith's stories are so good as to be priceless." -- Sunday Express "Beautiful. . . . Wonderful. Her prose dances. Her imagination lights up life and experience. This is a book to read slowly, to savour its vitality and variety, one to return to and find new pleasures with each reading." -- The Scotsman "Endearing and affecting. . . . The extraordinary is always rooted in the corporeal . . . and this lends Smith's voice much of its considerable charm. . . . The narration is often arch, winking at you from the pages, rightfully proud of its own showmanship and subtlety, and is fundamentally human." -- London Magazine "A brilliant, comprehensive, unpredictable defence of public libraries. You can travel anywhere on Ali Smith's library ticket." -- The Guardian (London) "Powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . A gentle, comforting, and thought-provoking read. . . . It is a blessing to have authors such as Ali Smith." -- Stylist "Smith's world is incredibly generous--it's a place where all sorts of stories and human connections are possible." -- Metro "A series of spirited short stories, in an ingenious blend of fact and fiction. . . . The result is a love-song to literature that all readers will delight in dipping in and out of." --Lucy Brooks, Culture Whisper "A moving, surprising, beautiful collection. . . . So clever and so joyful." -- Open Democracy

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisFrom 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPR6069.M4213A6 2016