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Title Statement | Grand union: stories / [largetype] : Zadie Smith. |
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Author | Smith, Zadie |
Publication | New York: Random House Large Print,2019. |
Edition | First large print edition. |
Extent of Item | 303 pages |
ISBN | 0593152204 (pbk.) 9780593152201 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3628702 |
General Notes | Short stories. |
Contents | The dialectic -- Sentimental education -- The lazy river -- Words and music -- Just right -- Parents' morning epiphany -- Downtown -- Miss Adele amidst the corsets -- Mood -- Escape from New York -- Big week -- Meet the president! -- Two men arrive in a village -- Kelso deconstructed -- Blocked -- The canker -- For the king -- Now more than ever -- Grand union -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions. |
Summary | Zadie Smith's first short story collection combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything--when captured by Smith's brilliant gaze--feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do. |
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By Topic | Identity (Psychology)--Fiction |
Experience--Fiction | |
Ethics--Fiction | |
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