Swing time /
by Smith, Zadie.
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BookPublisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2017Description: 453 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780141036601 (pbk.) :; 0141036605 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): General | GeneralSummary: Two 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, 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Crosby Library | Adult Fiction | Available | 002945468X |
Originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.
Two 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, 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.
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