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100 1 _aSmith, Zadie,
245 1 0 _aSwing time /
_cZadie Smith
264 1 _aNew York :
_bPenguin Press,
_c2016
300 _a453 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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520 _a"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly 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. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time"--
_cProvided by publisher
650 0 _aFemale friendship
_vFiction
650 0 _aWomen, Black
_vFiction
650 0 _aDancers
_vFiction
655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
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655 7 _aFiction.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01423787
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aSmith, Zadie, author.
_tSwing time
_dNew York, New York : Penguin Press, [2016]
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