Public library and other stories
By: Ali Smith
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780241237465; 9780241974582
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Libraries; Books and reading; Short Stories; Fiction; Short stories; General
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "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 coax us endlessly to unexpected blossom; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes previously published stories.
Table of contents: title: Library; title: Last; title: That beautiful new build; title: Good voice; title: Opened by Mark Twain; title: The beholder; title: A clean, well-lighted place; title: The poet; title: The ideal model of society; title: The human claim; title: Soon to be sold; title: The ex-wife; title: Put a price on that; title: The art of elsewhere; title: On Bleak House Road; title: After life; title: Curve tracing; title: The definite article; title: The library sunlight; title: Grass; title: The making of me; title: Say I won't be there; title: The infinite possibilities; title: And so on.