White Teeth Contributor(s): Smith, Zadie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375703861 ISBN-13: 9780375703867 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2001 Annotation: Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn't quite match her name (Jamaican for "no problem"). Samad's late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal's every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence. Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LCCN: 99043658 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lexile Measure: 960(Not Available) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series: Vintage International | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.13" W x 8.63" L (0.76 lbs) 464 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - British Isles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Review Citations: BookPage 06/01/2001 pg. 25 Entertainment Weekly 06/22/2001 pg. 83 New York Times 06/17/2001 pg. 28 New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 89 Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1 Newsweek 12/21/2009 pg. 74 Village Voice 12/23/2009 pg. 28 Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 102 Entertainment Weekly 08/22/2014 pg. 113 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quiz #: 67005 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 29.0 |
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Publisher Description: Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn't quite match her name (Jamaican for "no problem"). Samad's late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal's every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London' s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence. |
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