Public Library and Other Stories Paperback by Ali Smith

Product Details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (2016-10-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780670069965
• Item Weight: 244.94 grams
• Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.19 x 0.7 cm

A book of stories all about why books mean the world to us

Why are books, in all their forms, 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, The Library and Other Stories, are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us, friends for life; 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.

About the Author

ALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including Companion Piece, the "Seasonal Quartet," Public Library and other stories, and How To Be Both, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has been shortlisted four times the Booker Prize. Most recently, she won the George Orwell Prize for Fiction for Summer. Born in Inverness, Scotland, she lives in Cambridge, England.