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A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary. ... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Kafka: Add a description of this character.
- David Foster Wallace
- Nabokov
- Katharine Hepburn
- Maddalena
- E. M. Forster
- George Eliot
- Harvey
- Brod
- Dorothea
- Barthes
- Fred Vincy
- Hurston
- Magnani
- Hans
- Chuck
- Begley
- Janie
- Clooney
- Denzil
- Garbo
- Lydgate
- Visconti
- Tracy
- Larkin
- Murrow
- Obama
- Hancock
- Maria
- Joyce
- Cary Grant
- Mccarthy
- Avner
- Laura
- Henry James
- Mary Garth
- Ray Porter
- Rosamund
- Chiyo
- Jimmy Stewart
- Rachel
- Bert Scaife
- Syriana
Table of Contents edit
Reading
One. Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean?
Two. E.M. Forster, Middle Manager
Three. Middlemarch and Everybody
Four. Rereading Barthes and Nabokov
Five. F. Kafka, Everyman
Six. Two Directions For the Novel
Being
Seven. That Crafty Feeling
Eight. One Week in Liberia
Nine. Speaking in Tongues
Seing
Hepburn and Garbo
Eleven. Notes on Visconti's Bellissima
Twelve. At the Multiplex, 2006
Feeling
Fourteen. Smith Family Christmas
Fifteen. Accidental Hero
Sixteen. Dead Man Laughing
Remembering
Seventeen. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace
Authors & Contributors edit
- Zadie Smith (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 26 November 2009
ISBN: 978-0241142950
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 26 November 2009
ISBN: 978-0241142950
Page Count: 320
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 824.914
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