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Public library and other stories

Public library and other stories

Public library and other stories

Editorial: Random UK

Pàgines: 240

Any: 2016

EAN: 9780241974599

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Sobre el libro Public library and other stories de Ali Smith publicado por Random UK al 2016:

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. Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history...
Ali Smith

Sobre Ali Smith

Ali Smith (Inverness, 1964) Va tenir una mare irlandesa, un pare anglès i una educació escocesa (fins que va començar el seu doctorat al Newnham College, Cambridge). Als vint anys, després que un debilitant atac de síndrome de fatiga crònica descarrilés la seva carrera acadèmica, va començar a escriure. Ara, autora de vuit novel·les i sis col·leccions de contes, crea el que podria dir-se ficció experimental, però amb un estil fàcil, agradable i d´emocionant lectura. Escriu en The Guardian,...

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