Public Library and Other Stories

Public Library and Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101973056

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From the acclaimed, award-winning author: 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 unraveling 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. Woven between the stories are conversations with writers and readers reflecting on the essential role that libraries have played in their lives. At a time when public libraries around the world face threats of cuts and closures, this collection stands as a work of literary activism—and as a wonderful read from one of our finest authors.

Other Stories and Other Stories

Other Stories and Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141912804

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Other Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith. Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous. 'Beautifully written and quietly unsettling' Big Issue 'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent 'A wonderful collection; deceptively easy on one level with its whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another' Herald 'Smith breathes life into her imagined words with a true understanding of the craft of the short-story writer. She dances surely and lightly over the form' Guardian 'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times 'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement

Gender and Short Fiction

Gender and Short Fiction
Author: Jorge Sacido-Romero
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351604899

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In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the editors endorse the view that the genre still retains its potential as a vehicle for the expression of female experience alternative to and/or critical with dominant patriarchal ideology present at the very onset of the development of the modern British short story at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752520841

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1895.