White Teeth

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Description

An unforgettable portrait of London and one of the most talked about debuts of all time!’The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages’ GuardianOn New Years Day 1975, the day of his almost-suicide, life said yes to Archie Jones. Not OK or ‘You-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you’ve-started’. A resounding affirmative.Promptly seizing his second life by the horns, Archie meets and marries Clara Bowden, a Caribbean girl twenty-eight years his junior.Thus begins a tale of friendship, of love and war, of three culture and three families over three generations . . .*****’Street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time’ New York Times’Outstanding’ Sunday Telegraph’An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious . . . I was delighted’ Salman Rushdie

Additional information

Weight 0.585 kg
Dimensions 3.5 × 13 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

560

Publisher

Year Published

2001-1-25

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0140276335

About The Author

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Funny, clever … and a rollicking good read

Other text

Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read

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