# Public library and other stories

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith/public-library-and-other-stories

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- Authors: [Ali Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-11-05

## Description

Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.

## Editions

### Public library and other stories

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 4 h 14 min
- Narrated by: Ali Smith
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-315-6
- Published: 2021-12-09
- Language: en_GB

### Public Library and Other Stories

- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-11-0197-304-2
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-10-04
- Language: en_US

### Public library and other stories

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-459-9
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-05-05
- Language: en_GB

### Public library and other stories

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-458-2
- Published: 2015-11-05
- Language: en_GB