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0141036605

Swing time.

Author: Smith, Zadie.

Publication year: 2017

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2017.

ISBN: 0141036605 9780141036601 (pbk): 8.99

Notes:

Originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.

Two 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. Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, 'Swing Time' is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them.