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The first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker
Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth 'Zadie Smith
is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue
is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also
delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class,
celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic,
as ever, on family and friendship, and her ability to write about
large-scale social injustice without losing her neutral novelist's
gaze is breathtaking' Times Literary Supplement on Swing Time In
the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London
lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone
else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother
looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart -
and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which
desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and
self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid the broken shards of
his life, unable to move forward into a future that holds no place
for him. Moral panic spreads like contagion through the upper
echelons of New York City - and the cancelled people look
disconcertingly like the rest of us. A teenage scion of the
technocratic elite chases spectres through a premium virtual
reality, trailed by a little girl with a runny nose and no
surviving family. We all take a much-needed break from this mess,
on a package holiday where the pool's electric blue is ceaselessly
replenished, while political and environmental collapse happen far
away, to someone else. Interleaving ten completely new and
unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New
Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie 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.
General
Imprint: |
Hamish Hamilton
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2019 |
Authors: |
Zadie Smith
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Dimensions: |
233 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-33703-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Short stories
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LSN: |
0-241-33703-8 |
Barcode: |
9780241337035 |
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