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Changing my mind : occasional essays / Zadie Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.Description: xiv, 306 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781594202377 :
  • 1594202370 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR6069.M59 C43 2009
Contents:
Foreword -- Reading. Their eyes were watching God: what does soulful mean? ; E.M. Forster, middle manager ; Middlemarch and everybody ; Rereading Barthes and Nobokov ; F. Kafka, everyman ; Two directions for the novel -- Being. That crafty feeling ; One week in Liberia ; Speaking in tongues -- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo -- Notes on Visconti's Bellissima ; At the multiplex, 2006 ; Ten notes on Oscar weekend -- Feeling. Smith family Christmas ; Accidental hero ; Dead man laughing -- Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men: the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace.
Summary: A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling."
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Speedway Adult Area Non-fiction 824.9 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 35550431059453
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Reading. Their eyes were watching God: what does soulful mean? ; E.M. Forster, middle manager ; Middlemarch and everybody ; Rereading Barthes and Nobokov ; F. Kafka, everyman ; Two directions for the novel -- Being. That crafty feeling ; One week in Liberia ; Speaking in tongues -- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo -- Notes on Visconti's Bellissima ; At the multiplex, 2006 ; Ten notes on Oscar weekend -- Feeling. Smith family Christmas ; Accidental hero ; Dead man laughing -- Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men: the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace.

A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling."

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