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Swing time

Paperback • 2018 • English • 1. edition

Swing time

By Zadie Smith

9 Ratings • 4.4 of 5

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About the book

Two 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 cl...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780141036601

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2018

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Swing time

Format

Paperback

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9 Ratings • 4.4 of 5

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