TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Ali
TI  - Public library and other stories
SN  - 9780241237465 (hbk.) :
AV  - PR6069.M4213 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Hamish Hamilton
KW  - Short stories
KW  - eflch
KW  - General
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Short Stories
N2  - Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make
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