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Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2009: One of Zadie Smith's great gifts as a novelist is her openness: both to character and ideas in her stories, and to what a novel itself should be. That she's a novelist was clear as soon she broke through with White Teeth in her early twenties, but what kind she'll be (or will be next) seems open to change. Which all, along with her consistent intelligence, grace, and wit, makes her an ideal essayist too, especially for the sort of "occasional essays" collected for the first time in Changing My Mind. She can make the case equally for the cozy "middle way" of E.M. Forster and the most purposefully demanding of David Foster Wallace's stories, both as a reader and, you imagine, as a writer who is considering their methods for her own. The occasions in this book didn't only bring her to write about writers, though: she also investigates, among other subjects, Katherine Hepburn, Liberia, and Barack Obama (through the lens of Pygmalion), and, in the collection's finest piece, recalls her late father and their shared comedy snobbery. One wishes more occasions upon her. --Tom Nissley
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Zadie Smith was born in Northwest London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, Changing My Mind, NW, and most recently, Swing Time.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0241142962
- ISBN 13 9780241142967
- BindingPaperback
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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
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Condition: Fine. Split into four sections Reading , Being , Seeing and Feeling Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith s unique vantage point. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays some published here for the first time on diverse topics, including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katherine Hepburn and Anna Magnani. Seller Inventory # e2c5e4fe-1451-4114-a210-f09d9e0ea54f
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