EPISODE · Oct 4, 2016 · 10 MIN
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
from Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Felipe Okuneva
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Public Library and Other Stories Author: Ali Smith Narrator: Ali Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed, award-winning author: 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Public Library and Other Stories Author: Ali Smith Narrator: Ali Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed, award-winning author: 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.
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