{"product_id":"intimations-six-essays-by-zadie-smith","title":"'Intimations: Six Essays' by Zadie Smith","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"612\"\u003eWritten during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, \u003cem data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"118\"\u003eIntimations\u003c\/em\u003e is a brief but surprisingly expansive collection of essays that refuses the easy certainties many lockdown books settled into.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"612\"\u003eRather than documenting the crisis itself, Zadie Smith treats it as a lens through which to think about time, privilege, suffering, language, art and the strange experience of living through history while still trying to make sense of ordinary life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003eSmith's essays are characteristically lucid, intellectually restless and humane. She moves effortlessly between memoir, literary criticism, philosophy and cultural observation without ever becoming abstract for abstraction's sake. Questions about writing, beauty, inequality, memory and collective responsibility emerge naturally from the texture of everyday experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1440\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2020 Penguin Random House paperback, first edition. Very good condition with light shelf wear and a clean, unmarked interior.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45756443131987,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/bringdogs_babies_grandparents_39.png?v=1782904375","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/intimations-six-essays-by-zadie-smith","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}