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"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 bo...

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Main Author: Smith, Ali, 1962- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Edition:First Anchor Books edition.
Subjects:
Books and reading > Fiction.
Libraries > Fiction.
Short stories.
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Table of Contents:
  • Last
  • that beautiful new build
  • Good voice
  • opened by mark twain
  • The beholder
  • a clean, well-lighted place
  • The poet
  • the ideal model of society
  • The human claim
  • soon to be sold
  • The ex-wife
  • put a price on that
  • The art of elsewhere
  • on bleak house road
  • After life
  • curve tracing
  • The definite article
  • the library sunlight
  • Grass
  • the marking of me
  • Say I won't be there
  • the infinite possibilities
  • And so on.

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