Public Library and Other Stories

by Ali Smith

Book Overview

From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101973048
• ISBN13: 9781101973042
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"