Books by Zadie Smith
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review 1: This story is packaged like a tiny book. And at only 69 pages, it's a fast read. But it's an interesting read. Told from the viewpoint of a nameless, faceless narrator who lives in a quiet, well-to-do neighbourhood, it tells the story of Fatou, a woman working in a thankless job ...
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review 1: The standouts in this book are the essay on E.M. Forster (whom I love, and therefore cannot separate my enjoyment of the essay from my enjoyment of him) and the film reviews, which were so great I wanted to stuff the book into my mouth and eat it.The rest is a mixed bag; I disagr...
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review 1: NW left me unsatisfied. White Teeth and On Beauty successfully left me with that good-novel feeling of cosmic coincidence/confirmation of some profoundly basic statement on human nature. The characters fulfilled the expectations that Smith initially introduced to the reader: of t...
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review 1: A good read but the same excellent standard I have come to expect from Zadie Smith. I think if I read it in the New Yorker I would have been impressed, as it's a perfect read for "browsing" but published and turned into a penguin classic style book is a little over the top and ra...
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review 1: Oblivious to Ms Smith's literary outings, I picked this up on a whim and found myself absolutely entranced by both the range and the readability. She dons many hats: of a literary criticism professor, a film reviewer, a diarist, a travelogue writer and a lecturing writer, and man...
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review 1: Smith is good company through out though the essays themselves go up and down quite a bit. The talk on craft and the essay on EM Forster stood out to me.A couple faves that seemed relevant to grad school and (that I realize now rest in large part on quotes from other writers.)On ...