Book description
Changing My Mind
is a collection of essays by Zadie Smith on literature, cinema,
art - and everything in between.
'A supremely good read. Smith writes about reading and writing with
such infectious zeal and engaging accessibility that it makes you want
to turn up at her house and demand tutoring' Dazed and Confused
'Alarmingly good' Metro
'Striding with open hearted zest and eloquence between fiction (from
EM Forster to David Foster Wallace) and travel, movies and comedy,
family and community in a self-portrait that charts the evolution of a
formidable talent. In lovely elegiac pieces on her late father Harvey,
D-Day veteran and Tony Hancock fan, Smith also delivers some of the
most affecting autobiographical writing in any form'
Independent, Books of the Year
'Brilliant. She's friendly and conspiratorial, voicing the kind of
clever theories we could imagine ourselves holding if only we were as
articulate as Zadie Smith' Vogue
'Fascinating. Smith has the gift of showing you how she reads and
thinks; watching her do it makes you feel smarter and more observant.
Her account of her struggles as an author may be the most authentic,
unglamorous description of novel-writing ever put on paper' Time
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel,
White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the
Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Prize, and
was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to
2005. Her second novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction.
She has written two further novels, The Autograph Man and
NW, a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and has
edited a short-story collection, The Book of Other People.
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975 and still lives in
the area. She is the author of
White Teeth
,
The Autograph Man
and
On Beauty
, all of which are published by Penguin.
