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Swing time / Zadie Smith.

By: Smith, Zadie [author.]Material type: TextTextUK : Hamish Hamilton, 2016Description: 453 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241144152 (hbk.) :Subject(s): London (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: General. | General.DDC classification: 823.9'2 Summary: Two 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. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, 'Swing Time' is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them.
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Two 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. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, 'Swing Time' is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them.

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