01793cam a2200301 i 4500 278720930 TxAuBib 20161201120000.0 160603s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016021974 9781101973042 softcover 1101973048 softcover TxAuBib rda Smith, Alistair. Short stories Selections. Public library and other stories / Ali Smith. New York : Anchor, 2016. 240 pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 unraveling 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 remind us to pay attention to the world we make. Woven between the stories are conversations with writers and readers reflecting on the essential role that libraries have played in their lives. At a time when public libraries around the world face threats of cuts and closures, this collection stands as a work of literary activism--and as a wonderful read from one of our finest authors"-- Provided by publisher. 20161201. Books and reading Fiction. FICTION / Short Stories (single author.) FICTION / Contemporary Women. FICTION / Literary.