Zadie SmithHamish Hamilton Changing My Mind

I went on a tear through Zadie Smith's novels last year, starting with "White Teeth" and moving thru her work over the months. She is easily one of my new favorite writers, and so when I saw this essay collection on Amazon (having read her most recent essay collection, "Feel Free," earlier), I had to have it."Changing My Mind" is a far-reaching collection of essays, some literary, some cinematic, others dealing with other aspects of art, but all deeply personal on one level or another. It is a collection that rewards close reading and casual skimming alike. When you're reading the work of a great author, she can make you care about things you never would have without her prose to guide you. But the essays about shared interest are perhaps even better; to see something that you're enthusiastic about (like, say, David Foster Wallace) get validation through the work of a great essayist is something you can't beat.Zadie Smith is a master of fiction, because she has enormous empathy for her characters and a gift for depicting even the most mundane moments in their lives. She brings that gift to her reading, cinema-watching, and shared love of comedy with her father (easily the most moving essay is the one about her father's terminal illness and their shared love of British comedy). This is a collection of essays as moving as a great novel.

Gave this as a gift and my friend loved it!

très bon livre qui fait preuve de l'érudition de l'auteur et sa grande liberté de pensée. A conseiller à tous

The book was delivered to be very dirty.

Beautiful book, very well written as usual, very interesting essay on David Foster Wallace. I recommend it, you will only want to read more books !!