White Teeth (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
SMITH, Zadie. White Teeth. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008.
Octavo. Full blue-grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents, and "SIGNED EDITION" lettered on hub. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 448 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000.
Zadie Smith (b. 1975) grew up in Willesden, north-west London, the daughter of an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at King's College, Cambridge, where she began the novel that would become White Teeth — negotiating a £250,000 advance on the basis of its first eighty pages while still a student. She was twenty-four years old when the book was published. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Best First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Betty Trask Prize; it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize; and it was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It remains one of the most acclaimed debut novels in recent British literary history, and the work against which everything Smith has written since — On Beauty, NW, Swing Time, The Fraud — has been measured.
The novel is set in Willesden and follows three families across fifty years. Archie Jones, an unremarkable English everyman, and Samad Miah Iqbal, a Bangladeshi-British restaurateur, are friends forged in the bizarre circumstances of the last months of the Second World War. Their friendship persists into the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, as their families grow, collide, and entangle. Samad's tormented decision to send one of his twin sons to Bangladesh to be raised in a traditional Islamic environment — while keeping the other, Millat, in London — sends consequences rippling through the subsequent decades of the novel in ways neither father nor son could anticipate. The Chalfens, a white liberal intellectual family of Jewish descent, provide a third strand, representing a certain kind of English self-satisfaction that the novel regards with the same affectionate mercilessness it applies to everyone else.
What Smith produced from this material was a novel of enormous ambition and almost equally enormous confidence: comic and melancholy, formally intricate, alive to the absurdity of multiculturalism's contradictions without losing sympathy for any of its participants. The comparison most frequently invoked on publication was Salman Rushdie; others cited Dickens, John Irving, E. M. Forster. None of them was quite right, because the voice was immediately and recognisably Smith's own. Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002 and has since held professorships at Harvard and New York University.
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SMITH, Zadie. White Teeth. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008.
Octavo. Full blue-grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents, and "SIGNED EDITION" lettered on hub. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 448 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000.
Zadie Smith (b. 1975) grew up in Willesden, north-west London, the daughter of an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at King's College, Cambridge, where she began the novel that would become White Teeth — negotiating a £250,000 advance on the basis of its first eighty pages while still a student. She was twenty-four years old when the book was published. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Best First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Betty Trask Prize; it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize; and it was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It remains one of the most acclaimed debut novels in recent British literary history, and the work against which everything Smith has written since — On Beauty, NW, Swing Time, The Fraud — has been measured.
The novel is set in Willesden and follows three families across fifty years. Archie Jones, an unremarkable English everyman, and Samad Miah Iqbal, a Bangladeshi-British restaurateur, are friends forged in the bizarre circumstances of the last months of the Second World War. Their friendship persists into the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, as their families grow, collide, and entangle. Samad's tormented decision to send one of his twin sons to Bangladesh to be raised in a traditional Islamic environment — while keeping the other, Millat, in London — sends consequences rippling through the subsequent decades of the novel in ways neither father nor son could anticipate. The Chalfens, a white liberal intellectual family of Jewish descent, provide a third strand, representing a certain kind of English self-satisfaction that the novel regards with the same affectionate mercilessness it applies to everyone else.
What Smith produced from this material was a novel of enormous ambition and almost equally enormous confidence: comic and melancholy, formally intricate, alive to the absurdity of multiculturalism's contradictions without losing sympathy for any of its participants. The comparison most frequently invoked on publication was Salman Rushdie; others cited Dickens, John Irving, E. M. Forster. None of them was quite right, because the voice was immediately and recognisably Smith's own. Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002 and has since held professorships at Harvard and New York University.
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SMITH, Zadie. White Teeth. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008.
Octavo. Full blue-grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents, and "SIGNED EDITION" lettered on hub. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 448 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000.
Zadie Smith (b. 1975) grew up in Willesden, north-west London, the daughter of an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at King's College, Cambridge, where she began the novel that would become White Teeth — negotiating a £250,000 advance on the basis of its first eighty pages while still a student. She was twenty-four years old when the book was published. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Best First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Betty Trask Prize; it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize; and it was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It remains one of the most acclaimed debut novels in recent British literary history, and the work against which everything Smith has written since — On Beauty, NW, Swing Time, The Fraud — has been measured.
The novel is set in Willesden and follows three families across fifty years. Archie Jones, an unremarkable English everyman, and Samad Miah Iqbal, a Bangladeshi-British restaurateur, are friends forged in the bizarre circumstances of the last months of the Second World War. Their friendship persists into the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, as their families grow, collide, and entangle. Samad's tormented decision to send one of his twin sons to Bangladesh to be raised in a traditional Islamic environment — while keeping the other, Millat, in London — sends consequences rippling through the subsequent decades of the novel in ways neither father nor son could anticipate. The Chalfens, a white liberal intellectual family of Jewish descent, provide a third strand, representing a certain kind of English self-satisfaction that the novel regards with the same affectionate mercilessness it applies to everyone else.
What Smith produced from this material was a novel of enormous ambition and almost equally enormous confidence: comic and melancholy, formally intricate, alive to the absurdity of multiculturalism's contradictions without losing sympathy for any of its participants. The comparison most frequently invoked on publication was Salman Rushdie; others cited Dickens, John Irving, E. M. Forster. None of them was quite right, because the voice was immediately and recognisably Smith's own. Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002 and has since held professorships at Harvard and New York University.
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This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000512
