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By Smith, Zadie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-14303-818-4
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 7, 2008
"The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, pungent stories that attack the question of "character" from all angles. From David Mitchell's hilarious rendering of one menopausal woman's fantasy internet love-affair to ZZ Packer's heart-wrenching Jewish guy-black girl romance, each story is, as Smith puts it, "its own thing entirely." There are moments of prosaic precision (Andrew O'Hagan's eerily i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
