NW : a novel / Zadie Smith.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2012.Description: 401 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 1594203970
- 9781594203978
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Smith Zadie | Available | 33111007000207 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of the New York Times Book Review 's 10 Best Books of 2012
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan--as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. In private houses and public parks, at work and at play, these Londoners inhabit a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end. Depicting the modern urban zone--familiar to city-dwellers everywhere-- NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.
Visitation -- Guest -- Host -- Crossing.
"Four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan - try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end."--From publisher's information.