Zadie Smith Intimations Paperback Book

One of Time Magazines 100 MustRead Books of 2020 and an FT Best Book of the YearThoughtprovoking and deeply consoling, a perfectly distilled set of essays on the strangest year many of us have experienced, from one of our wisest and most humane thinkersAs well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one Evening Standard Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clearsighted and essential writers of our timeFrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many moreThere will be many books written about the year 2020 historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those the year isnt halfway done. What Ive tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed. These are above all personal essays small by definition, short by necessity. Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love an essential book in extraordinary times. Zadie Smith is a marvel her soulfulness, her sensitivity, her ability to write . . . She... | Zadie Smith Intimations Paperback Book