Changing My Mind - Occasional Essays

Informationen zum Autor Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW, Swing Time and The Fraud ; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia ; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free , Intimations and Dead and Alive ; a collection of short stories, Grand Union ; and the play, The Wife of Willesden , adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People . Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. Klappentext Split into five sections - 'Reading', 'Being', 'Seeing', 'Feeling' and 'Remembering' - CHANGING MY MIND finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays - some published here for the first time - reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Zusammenfassung Features a collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between.

Product details

• Authors: Zadie Smith, Smith Zadie
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780141019468
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101946-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Anthologies: general, Fiction: general and literary, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers