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Changing My Mind [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Zadie Smith
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A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary. Split into four sections??Reading," ?Being," ?Seeing," and ?Feeling??Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith's unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal a... more info>>
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The Book of Other People [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Zadie Smith
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A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating
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On Beauty [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Zadie Smith
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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict... more info>>
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The Autograph Man [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Zadie Smith
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Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them--all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace, and the rare autograph of forties movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries. The Autograph Man is a deeply funny existential tour around the hollow trappings of mo... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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White Teeth [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation. A second m... more info>> (Published: 1999)
Words: 125000 - Reading Time: 357-500 min.
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