Grand Union: Stories [SIGNED COPY, FIRST UK PRINTING]

Smith, Zadie

ISBN 10: 024133702X / ISBN 13: 9780241337028

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2019

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New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on a special signature page (signature only). 1st UK edition, 1st printing, numberline consists of ?001?. New, unread copy with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. Mild dusting to the top of the pageblock. ?Signed Copy? sticker. A finalist for the Story Prize by the Orange Prize-, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-, Whitbread First Novel Award-, Guardian First Book Award-, James Tait Black Memorial Prize-, Commonwealth Writers? First Book Award-, Wingate Literary Prize-, Welt-Literaturpreis-, Langston Hughes Medal-, Infinity Award-, National Book Critics Circle Award-, Bodley Medal-, PEN/Audible Literary Service Award-, and Critics' Circle Theatre Award-winning author of ?White Teeth? and ?On Beauty?. Signed UK editions are rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Seller Inventory # 001634

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Title: Grand Union: Stories [SIGNED COPY, FIRST UK ...

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Publication Date: 2019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: UK edition

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Synopsis:

'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 eleven 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.

About the Author:

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union.

White Teeth won multiple awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.