Noveller. 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
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Detaljer om materialet
Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Klassemærke
83
Beskrivelse
Indhold: Library ; Last ; That beautiful new build ; Good voice ; Opened by Mark Twain ; The beholder ; A clean, well-lighted place ; The poet ; The ideal model of society ; The human claim ; Soon to be sold ; The ex-wife ; Put a price on that ; The art of elsewhere ; On Bleak House Road ; After life ; Curve tracing ; The definite article ; The library sunlight ; Grass ; The making of me ; Say I won't be there ; The infinite possibilities ; And so on
ISBN
9780241237465
Omfang
219 sider
Forlag
Hamish Hamilton
Målgruppe
voksenmaterialer