Smith, Zadie

Changing my mind : occasional essays / Zadie Smith - Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press ; Detroit : Gale, Cengage Learning , 2010. - 563 p. ; 23 cm. - Large print books .

Includes index.

Reading. Foreword -- F. Kafka, everyman -- What does soulful mean? -- E.M. Forster, middle manager -- Pnin and reality -- The difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace -- Middlemarch and everybody -- Two directions for the novel -- Being. That crafty feeling -- Oliver! -- One week in Liberia -- Speaking in tongues -- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo -- Bellissima -- At the movies, 2006 -- Ten notes on Oscar weekend -- Feeling. Smith family Christmas -- Accidental hero -- Dead man laughing.

A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling."

9781410425027

2009023419


Smith, Zadie


Literature----History and criticism
Motion pictures---History
Essays---English

PR6069.M59 / C43 2009

LARP 824.914 SMI