The Resource Swing time (eBook), Zadie Smith
Swing time (eBook), Zadie Smith
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The item Swing time (eBook), Zadie Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chattahoochee Valley Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9780399564314
- Label
- Swing time (eBook)
- Title
- Swing time (eBook)
- Statement of responsibility
- Zadie Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Zadie
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- OverDrive Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women, Black
- Female friendship
- Dancers
- Dancers
- Female friendship
- Women, Black
- London (England)
- Africa, West
- Africa, West
- England
- Electronic books
- Label
- Swing time (eBook), Zadie Smith
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780399564314
- Lccn
- 2016051641
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 6D8D866E-86AD-45FA-BDFE-E9F65D023D77
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)960641178
- ocn960641178
- 458472
- System details
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- Adobe EPUB eBook
- Kindle Book
- OverDrive Read
- Label
- Swing time (eBook), Zadie Smith
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780399564314
- Lccn
- 2016051641
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 6D8D866E-86AD-45FA-BDFE-E9F65D023D77
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)960641178
- ocn960641178
- 458472
- System details
-
- Adobe EPUB eBook
- Kindle Book
- OverDrive Read
Subject
- Dancers
- Dancers -- Fiction
- Downloadable e-Books
- Electronic books
- England -- London
- Female friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Africa, West
- Women, Black
- Women, Black -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Africa, West -- Fiction
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- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2016
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2016
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2016
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