Public Library and other stories ( Signed )
Language: English
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London,, 2015
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
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First printing. Published by Hamish Hamilton, London in 2015. Signed without inscription by the author to the title page. Not price-clipped. Publisher's price of £16.99. Ali Smith's fifth volume of short fiction. All the stories in this collection are connected with books and our relationship with them. Overall, a fine copy.
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- Title
- Public Library and other stories ( Signed )
- Author
- Smith, Ali
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, London,
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241237467
- ISBN 13
- 9780241237465
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 14 centimeters width by 22.25 centimeters height by 2.25 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Modern Literature, Signed
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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 remind us to pay attention to the world we make.
Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history.
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