Public Library and Other Stories
A book of stories all about why books mean the world to us
Why are books, in all their forms, so very powerful?
What do the books we've read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us?
What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?
The stories in Ali Smith's new collection, The Library and Other Stories, are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us, friends for life; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser, and ageless all at once; how they coax us endlessly to unexpected blossom; how they remind us to…
$22.95
October 4, 2016
ALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, Summer, Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, and How to be both, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has four times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Born in Inverness, Scotland, she lives in Cambridge, England.
Gliff
Ali Smith
Companion Piece
Ali Smith
Summer
Ali Smith
The Accidental
Ali Smith
Spring
Ali Smith
Winter
Ali Smith
Autumn
Ali Smith
Public Library and Other Stories
Ali Smith
How to be both
Ali Smith
Artful
Ali Smith
The First Person and Other Stories
Ali Smith
Girl Meets Boy
Ali Smith
The Book Lover
Ali Smith
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
Coexistence
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Shashi Bhat
Normal Rules Don't Apply
Kate Atkinson
Last Woman
Carleigh Baker
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
The Goodbye Cat
Hiro Arikawa, Translated by Philip Gabriel
Uncertain Kin
Janice Lynn Mather
Sans Souci
Dionne Brand
Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny
Animal Person
Alexander MacLeod
Stray Dogs
Rawi Hage