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The library and other stories / Ali Smith.
Van Pelt Library PR6069.M4213 P83 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Ali, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, 2015.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Library
- Last
- That beautiful new build
- Good voice
- Opened by Mark Twain
- The beholder
- A clean, well-lighted place
- The poet
- The ideal model of society
- The human claim
- Soon to be sold
- The ex-wife
- Put a price on that
- The art of elsewhere
- On Bleak House Road
- After life
- Curve tracing
- The definite article
- The library sunlight
- Grass
- The making of me
- Say I won't be there
- The infinite possibilities
- And so on.
- ISBN:
- 9780670069965
- 0670069965
- OCLC:
- 908654863
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