Feel Free: Essays

ISBN-13: 9780241971024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 464 str.

Zadie Smith

Opis

The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essaysWITH NEW MATERIAL ADDED - an extra essay for paperback editionShould you read this brilliant book? Absolutely IndependentGenerous, curious, insistent on the possibility of imaginative connection Evening StandardNo subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smiths insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has endless enthusiasmand the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment, dissected with razor-sharp intellect, set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary, and considered with a deep humanity and compassion.This electrifying new collection showcases its author as a true literary powerhouse, demonstrating once again her credentials as an essential voice of her generation.Lively, intelligent and frequently hilarious, [it] proves that shes one of the brightest minds in English literature today NPRSmart, spirited and distinctive Wall Street JournalShe is the book nerd, the culture geek, reading, hearing and seeing, and dying to talk to somebody about it Guardian

Recenzje

A writer so insistent on the possibility of imaginative connection, so generous and curious with regard to her readers Evening Standard

O autorze

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; 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. The Fraud is her first historical novel.