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Swing Time: A Novel by Zadie Smith ebook Ebook Swing Time: A Novel currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Swing Time: A Novel please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download book here >> Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (September 5, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 0143111647 ISBN-13: 978-0143111641 Product Dimensions:5.4 x 1 x 8.4 inches ISBN10 0143111647 ISBN13 978-0143111641 Download here >> Description: A New York Times bestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeAn 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. Its 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. I keep reading Zadie Smith thinking I must be missing something. Everyone proclaims her a literary superstar, but Ive always found something lacking in her novels. In the beginning I found her to be undisciplined, unfocused, in strong need of an editor. She gave me a headache. Now I think the problem, at least for me, is that she lacks depth, although it seems on the surface as if shes writing about deep issues. In her latest revisit to NW London, her sense of place is indelible, but I found the drawn out story of an on-again-off-again friendship, and a subsequent friendship with a rock star, not at all convincing. In particular, the character of Aimee, the rock star, feels false. I didnt buy that relationship at all. Adding an EDIT here, as I think about this some more: one big problem is that I think Smith skates over characterizations without doing deeper work. The whole book is predicated on the idea of dance as a metaphor, but as someone who knows something about dance I found the writing absolutely lacking in anything resembling truth. The girls watch videos and talk very vaguely about dance, but theres nothing from Smith about their bodies, nothing about movement, nothing about discipline or pain or pleasure of dancing, no true description of what it really means to be a dancer. Just fake-sounding talk. Did she do any research at all on this subject? Equally, the references to old movies feel like thats all they are: references from research, titles, a bit of color laid in, nothing more. Smith clearly doesnt know what it means to be a singer. We get nothing of Aimees music, nothing about who she is as a musician, nothing about a life dedicated to music, only a false conflation of Madonna and someone else maybe? And possibly the worst thing is the friendship Smith begins with, something that seems profound between two needy children, gets completely lost as she moves on. What happened to Tracey, exactly? Why did she go off the rails? What is wrong with her? She sketches what might have been the most interesting character without any completion, which is frustrating for the reader. Occasionally Smiths insight into someones nature is described beautifully, with beautiful, lyrical language, especially scenes set in Africa (the most authentic scenes in the book), and Id think, oh here it is, the high caliber talent that won Smith her accolades. But that feeling would slip away as I read on, as it always seems to do. Swing Time: A Novel in Literature and Fiction books Swing Time: A Novel A Novel Time: Swing will they both be strong enough to beat the temptation that made that their past relationship so hot and novel or will they both have a change of heart Time: swing them taking a Time: chance at happiness. 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