The Burned Children of America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241142059 ISBN 13: 9780241142059

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2003

Synopsis

This volume brings together the most promising young American authors, with a penchant for writing about such slippery subjects as snakes, letter-writing dogs, chicken livers and indoor shopping malls.

About this title

About the Author:

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0241142059
• ISBN 13: 9780241142059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Dave Eggers