Changing My Mind

Mit dem Schreiben begann Zadie Smith während ihres Examens am King's College in Cambridge - "als Ausgleich zu dem langweiligen Lernen", wie sie selbst sagt. Mit ihrem Debüt "White Teeth" avancierte sie zum Liebling der Literaturszene und erhielt 2006 den Orange-Literaturpreis. "Changing my Mind" ist eine sprühende Sammlung von Zadie Smith's Non-Fiction.

Informationen zum Autor Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW and Swing Time ; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia ; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations ; a collection of short stories, Grand Union ; and the play, The Wife of Willesden , adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People . Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel. Klappentext Split into five sections - 'Reading', 'Being', 'Seeing', 'Feeling' and 'Remembering' - CHANGING MY MIND finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays - some published here for the first time - reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Zusammenfassung A far-ranging, invigorating and irrepressible collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Feel Free and Swing Time 'Alarmingly good' Metro 'Striding with open hearted zest and eloquence between fiction (from EM Forster to David Foster Wallace) and travel, movies and comedy, family and community in a self-portrait that charts the evolution of a formidable talent' Independent 'Supremely good. Smith writes with such infectious zeal and engaging accessibility that it makes you want to turn up at her house and demand tutoring' Dazed 'Brilliant' Vogue

Autorentext
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Klappentext

Split into five sections - 'Reading', 'Being', 'Seeing', 'Feeling' and 'Remembering' - CHANGING MY MIND finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays - some published here for the first time - reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas.

Zusammenfassung
Features a collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between.