Grand Union: Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525558996)

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal

A dazzling collection of short fiction

Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.

Nothing is off limits, and everything--when captured by Smith's brilliant gaze--feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do.

Author: Zadie Smith
ISBN-10: 0525558993
ISBN-13: 9780525558996
Publisher: Penguin Press
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2019 pg. 60
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 08/12/2019
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 18
Booklist 09/15/2019 pg. 20
BookPage 10/01/2019
Shelf Awareness 10/15/2019