Swing Time
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Author:SMITH Zadie
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ISBN:9780241247310
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Publication Date:November 2016
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Pages:453
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Books
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Country of Publication:
Swing Time
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Author:SMITH Zadie
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ISBN:9780241247310
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Publication Date:November 2016
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Pages:453
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Books
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Country of Publication:
Description
Two brown 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...
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Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.
Two brown 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...
Featured in the Spring 2016 Great Reads newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.