NW
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Zadie Smith exploded onto the literary scene with her critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling debut White Teeth. Set in the northwest corner of London, NW is a tragi-comic poetic exploration of modern urban life told through the eyes of four residents: Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan. After growing up and mostly escaping a 70s-era housing project, they now live separate lives mere streets apart. Their comfortable isolation is thrown into disorder, however, when a stranger arrives on Leah's doorstep asking for help.
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Zadie Smith. (2012). NW. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Zadie Smith. 2012. NW. Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Zadie Smith, NW. Recorded Books, Inc, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Zadie Smith. NW. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2012.
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Zadie Smith exploded onto the literary scene with her critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling debut White Teeth. Set in the northwest corner of London, NW is a tragi-comic poetic exploration of modern urban life told through the eyes of four residents: Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan. After growing up and mostly escaping a 70s-era housing project, they now live separate lives mere streets apart. Their comfortable isolation is thrown into disorder, however, when a stranger arrives on Leah's doorstep asking for help.
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In the hands of Smith, Northwest London—the postcode area that gives her fourth novel its title—is more than just a setting: told in shifting perspectives of its lifelong residents, NW becomes a character in its own right. Working class, downtrodden, with an undercurrent of hopelessness and violence, this borough of London is home to Leah, Felix, Natalie, and Nathan, Smith’s four focal characters, each one facing a conflict of identity. So many of the societal and class differences in NW are shown through nuances of voice, diction, and accent. And in this audio edition, narrators Don Gilet and Karen Bryson excel, capturing the subtleties of the many fluid dialectics in Northwest London spoken by immigrants and natives alike. The strong performances of and seamless interplay between Gilet and Bryson deftly capture the gritty day-to-day life of NW. A Penguin hardcover.
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Starred review from September 10, 2012
The reader first meets Leah Hanwell at her most vulnerable (some might say gullible): at home, when the doorbell rings and in tumbles a desperate, unknown but not unfamiliar woman, pleading for money, which Leah provides. Although this incident soon fades into an awkward anecdote shared later at awkward gatherings, it introduces the framework of Smith's (White Teeth) excellent and captivating new novel, in which the lines dividing neighbors from strangers are not always clear or permanent. The book takes place in NW London, where characters intersect and circumvent one another's lives and, in the process, expose their ethnic distinctions and class transformations, their relationships and their secrets. Leah's childhood best friend Natalie Blake (formerly Keisha Blake) eventually becomes the primary focus and the contrast between the two women allows for some of the book's most compelling insights, namely the inevitability of vs. the disinterest in becoming a mother, which Natalie has done and Leah decisively has not. The book's middle section introduces Felix Cooper, a friend of neither woman, but whose fate will affect them both. Smith's masterful ability to suspend all these bits and parts in the amber which is London refracts light, history, and the humane beauty of seeing everything at once. Agent: Georgia Garrett, Rogers, Coleridge and White.
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