Grand Union : : Stories

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Smith, Zadie, Fiction / Smith, Zadie
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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"First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin General, a division of Penguin Random House UK, 2019"--Title page verso.
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.
Grand Union explores a wide range of subjects, from first loves to cultural despair, as well as the desire to be the subject of your own experience. In captivating prose, she contends with race, class, relationships, and gender roles in a world that feels increasingly divided.
"Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction.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. Nothing is off limits, and everything--when captured by Smith's brilliant gaze--feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do"--Amazon.
Contents: Dialectic. -- Sentimental education. -- 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. -- Canker. -- For the king. -- Now more than ever.

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Disappointed submitted by smog58 on January 6, 2023, 9:17am I really wanted to enjoy this collectioon because I have read such praise for this author. I just could not connect with any of the stories. Also had a hard time following the dialogue. I will try another Zadie Smith book.