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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? This is about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, and more.

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' Observer

Why 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.

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'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

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Artful

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 14.5

Explores form style life love death mortality immortality and what art and writing can mean part fiction part essay this book is a revelation of what writing can do a playful form bending novel from the booker prize shortlisted women s prize winning author of how to be both and the criti Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, donderdag in huis .. MEER INFO

There But For The

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 9.04

there once was a man who one night at a dinner party went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party as time passes by and the consequences of this stranger s actions ripple outwards touching the owners the guests the nei Uiterlijk 30 november in huis .. MEER INFO

How To Be Both

Rating: 4 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.99

Borrowing from painting s fresco technique to make an original literary double take this book features forms times truths and fictions winner of the women s prize for fiction 2015 winner of the goldsmiths prize 2014winner of the 2014 costa novel award i take my hat off to ali smith her writing Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, donderdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 mei 2016

Aantal pagina's: 240

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Ali Smith

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 130 mm

Product hoogte: 15 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 129 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm

Verpakking lengte: 197 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 175 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780241974599

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