Bibliograph

White teeth, a novel, Zadie Smith

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Label

White teeth, a novel, Zadie Smith

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

White teeth

Oclc number

42290640

Responsibility statement

Zadie Smith

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie (working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt) is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby butcher shop comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life." -- Jacket

Table Of Contents

[I.] Archie 1974, 1945. The peculiar second marriage of Archie Jones ; Teething trouble ; Two families ; Three coming ; The root canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal -- [II.] Samad 1984, 1857. The temptation of Samad Iqbal ; Molars ; Mitosis ; Mutiny! ; The root canals of Mangal Pande -- [III.] Irie 1990, 1907. The miseducation of Irie Jones ; Canines: the ripping teeth ; The root canals of Hortense Bowden ; More English than the English ; Chalfenism versus Bowdenism -- [IV.] Magid, Millat, and Marcus 1992, 1999. The return of Magid Mahfooz Murshed Mubtasim Iqbal ; Crisis talks and eleventh-hour tactics ; The end of history versus the last man ; The final space ; Of mice and memory

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