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Swing time
- Title
- Swing time / Zadie Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Zadie
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 16-1934 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-13495 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 453 pages; 25 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1934
- ISBN
- 9781594203985
- 1594203989
- LCCN
- 2016043454
- OCLC
- 2016043454
- Author
- Smith, Zadie, author.
- Title
- Swing time / Zadie Smith.
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1934JFE 16-13495