{"product_id":"the-wife-of-willesden-paperback","title":"The Wife of Willesden - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.\u003cbr\u003e She plays many roles round here. And never\u003cbr\u003e Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether\u003cbr\u003e Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife\u003cbr\u003e Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life\u003cbr\u003e Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Willesden\u003c\/i\u003e follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a mixture of London slang and patois, Alvita recalls her five marriages in outrageous, bawdy detail, rewrites her mistakes as triumphs, and shares her beliefs on femininity, sexuality, and misogyny with anyone willing to listen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female sexual power, written with singular verve and wit, \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Willesden\u003c\/i\u003e shows why Zadie Smith is one of the sharpest and most versatile writers working today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Autograph Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e, three collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind, Feel Free\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIntimations\u003c\/i\u003e, and a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eGrand Union.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Other People\u003c\/i\u003e. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891598094438,"sku":"9780593653739","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SHR5S01kTjNJR21tcHR6RXc4amJRdz09.webp?v=1772888720","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-wife-of-willesden-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}