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Swing Time by Zadie Smith

"Smith's thrilling cultural insights never overshadow the wholeness of her characters, who are so keenly observed that one feels witness to their lives." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"A sweeping meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith's] most ambitious work yet." --Esquire

A New York Times bestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

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.

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Zadie Smith was born in 1975 in Northwest London and still resides there. White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, Shifting My Mind, NW, and most recently Swing Time are among her works.

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ISBN 13 9780143111641
ISBN 10 0143111647
Title Swing Time
Author Zadie Smith
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2017-09-05
Number of pages 464
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.