title: Zadie Smith's White Teeth (Continuum Contemporaries)
author:  Claire Squires 
description: "Study Aids Get Chic<br />Concerned about keeping up at the book club? Stuck for something to say when dinner party talk turns to Zadie Smith? Or no time to read Captain Corellis Mandolin before the movie comes out? Never fear, cool new study aids are here in the form of Continuum Contemporaries....The Novel Approach, a series of handy readers guides to contemporary fiction. Launching in September, with further waves in January and May 2002, theyre much slicker than the frumpy cheat-aids of yore, including everything from website links to review buzz, and deliberately featuring new novels such as Bridget Joness Diary, The Shipping News, Trainspotting, and even the Harry Potter books." Time Out (London)<br /><br />"A brilliant ideashort, perceptive books which tell you what you need to know about some of the most vibrant and challenging writing around todaya bit like having a reading group in your pocket."Ian Rankin<br /><br />"The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries. With the first volume, I was relieved. After two or three, I was hooked. <br /><br />The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. <br /><br />Refreshingly upfront and up-to-date<br /><br />Given the space, there are remarkably balanced film/novel comparisons of the most well-known examples<br /><br />An important feature is the fully referenced bibliographies, including reviews and copious website addresses - the latter ranging from fanzines and authors' and publishers' own sites to academic discussion lists and online journals. <br /><br />In method as in subject matter, these guides move freely on the interface between print culture and multimedia. Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right, they gesture accommodatingly to both words and worlds beyond. <br /><br />Taking the series as a whole, it also confirms two things: that narrative nowadays is generically highly hybrid and increasingly cross-media; and that an understanding of the processes of writing and reading 'contemporary classic' (or at least 'currently famous') fiction cannot be separated - yet must be distinguished - from the processes of making and marketing books and films."<br /> The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002<br />
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  White Teeth
  
  
  
  
  
  By
  
  
  
  
  
  Zadie Smith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "A rich, ambitious and often hilarious delight'
  
  
  
  
  
  Independent on Sunday
  
  
  
  
  
  "A rollicking, thundering, good-natured, ironic blast of a debut; a
  
  
  
  
  
  story that bowls along on an energy so raucous, smart-mouthed and fast
  
  
  
  
  
  that the force of it almost steamrollers the many plots and characters
  
  
  
  
  
  that make up its multi cultured 20th-century British family saga... so
  
  
  
  
  
  readable and good-hearted ... a book full of admirable energy and
  
  
  
  
  
  salvaged joie de vivre, a truly epic, shining piece of life' Scotsman
  
  
  
  
  
  "Quirky, sassy and wise ... a big, splashy, populous production
  
  
  
  
  
  reminiscent of books by Dickens and Salman Rushdie .. . demonstrates
  
  
  
  
  
  both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice
  
  
  
  
  
  that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the
  
  
  
  
  
  same time In what will surely rank as one of her generation's most
  
  
  
  
  
  precocious debuts, Smith