01971cam a2200313 i 4500 1164536356 TxAuBib 20161202120000.0 160603s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016021974 9781101973042 softcover $16.00 1101973048 softcover $16.00 (OCoLC)935191361 DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA BDX YDXCP OCLCF OCLCO JNE ZS3 ABG TxAuBib rda Smith, Ali, 1962-, author. Public library and other stories / Ali Smith. First Anchor Books edition. New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016. 219 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 2015. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20161214. Books and reading Fiction. Short stories. TXKIP