{"product_id":"changing-my-mind-zadie-smith-9780143117957","title":"Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--\u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zadie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143117955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143117957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.39h x 5.55w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2010 pg. 24","brand":"Zadie Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048075227391,"sku":"9780143117957","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0125a23f-5f52-4c56-9be9-8ba5e4cd67f7.jpg?v=1684993742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/changing-my-mind-zadie-smith-9780143117957","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}