Swing Time: MINT SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION

Zadie Smith

ISBN 10: 0241144159 / ISBN 13: 9780241144152

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2016

About this Item

A mint first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper.This unread gift condition copy is SIGNED and Publication Day DATED 15th November 2016 by Zadie Smith to the title page. NOT a tipped in page, very scarce to find with these attributes, especially signed. LAST MINT COPY BOXED DESPATCH.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1499765867277

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Swing Time: MINT SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241144159
• ISBN 13: 9780241144152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Two brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, about what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from northwest London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

Review

An Amazon Best Book of November 2016: In Swing Time, Zadie Smith handles race, class, and long-term friendship with grace and apparent ease. Two young black girls grow up in the same low income project in North London, both interested in dance, only one actually good at it. As they mature, their lives diverge. One actually becomes a dancer, the other goes on to be the assistant to a pop star. There’s something magical about reading Zadie Smith when she’s really on, and this book skillfully builds out each character—using hopes, wants, personal history, relationships, status, and even geography to delineate each person’s life. It’s fitting to compare Smith’s talents to a dancer’s, but it’s more accurate to admit she’s just a damn good novelist. --Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book Review