The Resource Swing time, Zadie Smith
Swing time, Zadie Smith
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The item Swing time, Zadie Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
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- Summary
- "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. 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, 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. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Swing time
- Title
- Swing time
- Statement of responsibility
- Zadie Smith
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueSocial classes
- trueDancing
- trueFamily relationships
- Female friendship
- trueCompetition
- Dancers
- trueRace relations
- trueDancers
- England -- London
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- trueMultiracial women
- Women, Black
- trueCelebrities
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Africa, West
- trueWest Africa
- trueLondon, England
- FICTION / Literary
- Dancers -- Fiction
- Women, Black -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueFemale friendship
- truePopular culture
- trueVoyages and travels
- FICTION / Sagas
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. 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, 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. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time"--
- Summary
- "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythmand 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.Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time"--
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2016
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2016
- New York Times Notable Book, 2016
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10539802
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Zadie
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Female friendship
- Women, Black
- Dancers
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Sagas
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- Dancers
- Female friendship
- Women, Black
- Africa, West
- England
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Swing time, Zadie Smith
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn958865318
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 453 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594203985
- Lccn
- 2016043454
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958865318
- Label
- Swing time, Zadie Smith
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn958865318
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 453 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594203985
- Lccn
- 2016043454
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958865318
Subject
- Africa, West
- trueCelebrities
- trueCompetition
- Dancers
- trueDancers
- Dancers -- Fiction
- trueDancing
- England -- London
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Sagas
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLondon, England
- trueMultiracial women
- truePopular culture
- Psychological fiction
- trueRace relations
- trueSocial classes
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWest Africa
- Women, Black
- Women, Black -- Fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2016
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2016
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2016
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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