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Grand union : stories, Zadie Smith

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"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 Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction.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."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
245 pages
Contents
  • The dialectic
  • Sentimental education
  • The lazy river
  • Words and music
  • Just right
  • Parents' morning epiphany
  • Downtown
  • Miss Adele amidst the corsets
  • Mood
  • Escape from New York
  • Big week
  • Meet the president!
  • Two men arrive in a village
  • Kelso deconstructed
  • Blocked
  • The canker
  • For the king
  • Now more than ever
  • Grand union
Isbn
9780241337035
Instance
Label
Grand union : stories
Title
Grand union
Title remainder
stories
Statement of responsibility
Zadie Smith
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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 ten 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."--
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Smith, Zadie
Index
no index present
Literary form
short stories
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
Interpersonal relations
Target audience
adult
Label
Grand union : stories, Zadie Smith
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
The dialectic -- Sentimental education -- The lazy river -- Words and music -- Just right -- Parents' morning epiphany -- Downtown -- Miss Adele amidst the corsets -- Mood -- Escape from New York -- Big week -- Meet the president! -- Two men arrive in a village -- Kelso deconstructed -- Blocked -- The canker -- For the king -- Now more than ever -- Grand union
Control code
000065445508
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
245 pages
Form of item
regular print reproduction
Isbn
9780241337035
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780241337035
  • (Sirsi) i9780241337035
  • (OCoLC)1097605357
Label
Grand union : stories, Zadie Smith
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The dialectic -- Sentimental education -- The lazy river -- Words and music -- Just right -- Parents' morning epiphany -- Downtown -- Miss Adele amidst the corsets -- Mood -- Escape from New York -- Big week -- Meet the president! -- Two men arrive in a village -- Kelso deconstructed -- Blocked -- The canker -- For the king -- Now more than ever -- Grand union
Control code
000065445508
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
245 pages
Form of item
regular print reproduction
Isbn
9780241337035
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780241337035
  • (Sirsi) i9780241337035
  • (OCoLC)1097605357

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