Public Library and Other Stories
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781101973042 (1101973048)
ASIN: 1101973048
Publish date: 2016-10-04
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
I’m not going to write a long review for Public Library as I posted my thoughts as I read the individual stories, but I’ll give you my overall impression. Funnily enough I picked up Public Library when I was in the library. It’s a short story collection and my first encounter, but definitely not m...
This is my first Ali Smith and I'm enjoying it so much. I loved the first story about a disabled woman stuck inside a train. I have problems walking myself (muscle weakness), so I really appreciated the fact Smith had a disabled character. I hardly ever read a novel or short story with one. Does any...
I realized I could say anything to this person and she wouldn’t be able to hear; I realized that unless she could lip-read she’d not know what I was saying. I could ask her what had happened to her, why and how she was in a wheelchair. I could recite the whole of Kubla Khan by Coleridge, or tell her...
Aside from this collection, the only work of Ali Smith's I've read is a novel, How to be both. With so little knowledge of the author, it may be premature for me to make assumptions about her writing, but I think it's safe to say that Smith is a very talented writer who speaks in thunderous whispers...
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith is a collection of short stories alternating with individuals giving their odes to the public library. The common thread between the stories is not libraries or books but rather language. The sections in between are essentially expressions of love for pu...
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