Public Library and Other Stories

Author(s): Ali Smith

Short Stories

Why are books 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 are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780241248881
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Hamish Hamilton Ltd
  • : September 2015
  • : United Kingdom
  • : December 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ali Smith
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : en
  • : 288