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Swing Time by Smith, Zadie

ISBN: 9780141036601 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 608 PUBLICATION DATE: 6.07.2017 DIMENSIONS: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.8 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer 'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitchperfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class... A pageturner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' TelegraphSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 Mumsnet Book of the Month for July 2017A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multiawardwinning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be 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.Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . .

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