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003			OCoLC
005			20190729110238.0
008			150909t20152015enk 000 j eng d
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035			_a(OCoLC)920852857
040			_aYDXCP _beng _erda _cYDXCP _dZ24 _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dEYM
050		4	_aPR6069.M4213 _bP83 2015
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100	1		_aSmith, Ali, _d1962-
245	1	0	_aPublic library and other stories / _cAli Smith.
264		1	_a[London] : _bHamish Hamilton, _c2015.
264		4	_c©2015.
300			_a219 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
505	0		_aLibrary -- Last -- That beautiful new build -- Good voice -- Opened by Mark Twain -- The beholder -- A clean, well-lighted place -- The poet -- The ideal model of society -- The human claim -- Soon to be sold -- The ex-wife -- Put a price on that -- The art of elsewhere -- On Bleak House Road -- After life -- Curve tracing -- The definite article -- The library sunlight -- Grass -- The making of me -- Say I won't be there -- The infinite possibilities -- And so on.
520			_a"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they coax us endlessly to unexpected blossom; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make." -- Book jacket.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _vFiction.
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787.
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