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008			161027s20162016nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781101973042
050	0	0	_aPR6069.M4213 _bA6 2016
082	1		_aFIC SMI _2
100	1		_aSmith, Ali _d(, 1962-)
245	1	0	_aPublic library and other stories _c/ Ali Smith.
260			_aNew York _b: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC _c, 2016
300			_a219 p. _c; 21 cm.cm
505			_aLast -- That beautiful new build -- Good voice -- Opened by mark twain -- The beholder -- A clean, well-lighted place -- The poet -- The ideal model of society -- The human claim -- Soon to be sold -- The ex-wife -- Put a price on that -- The art of elsewhere -- On bleak house road -- After life -- Curve tracing -- The definite article -- The library sunlight -- Grass -- The marking of me -- Say I won't be there -- The infinite possibilities -- And so on.
520			_aWhy 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 unraveling 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. Woven between the stories are conversations with writers and readers reflecting on the essential role that libraries have played in their lives. At a time when public libraries around the world face threats of cuts and closures, this collection stands as a work of literary activism.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aBooks and reading _x-Fiction
655		4	_aShort stories
942			_cMO
999			_c254973 _d254973