Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty, and of a collection of essays, Changing My bltadwin.ru is also the editor of The Book of Other bltadwin.ru is a graduate of Cambridge University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities/5(29). · The Book of Other People is a compilation of twenty four character sketches by a group of talented writers, some established, some up and coming. What originally drew me to this book was the fact that it was a Zadie Smith project; she had instructed each contributor to write a short story centered around a new character/5(30). · The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith (1-Nov) Hardcover on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Book of Other .
Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty, and of a collection of essays, Changing My bltadwin.ru is also the editor of The Book of Other bltadwin.ru is a graduate of Cambridge University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities. The Book of Other People | Page 1 of Few books are only available in 'with images' version. J. Johnson - Nick Hornby, with illustrations by Posy Simmonds. Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Hudson Street, New York, New York , U.S.A. Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green. The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you'll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunzru twitches open his net curtains to reveal the irrepressible Magda Mandela (at a.m., in her lime-green thong); Jonathan Safran Foer's Grandmother offers cookies to.
The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. Overview. A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character. The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). The Book of Other People is a collection of short stories, published in by Penguin Books. Selected and edited by Zadie Smith, it contains 23 short stories by 23 different authors, among them Nick Hornby, David Mitchell, Colm Tóibín, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, as well as Smith herself. The collection, as evidenced by the title, focuses on character; the authors were simply asked to "make somebody up".
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