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Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: Irony, with good balance

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:03:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author simonabusto - Written with verve and permeated with a subtle irony always catching its target, “White teeth” is maybe the best debut work I’ve ever read. Zadie Smith is wonderful in drawing her characters, in painting their peculiarities in a sarcastic...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: holla back youngun

Sat, 7 May 2005 13:34:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author umichlove - great book. interesting topic. no one really reads about the immigrants in london and their offspring. nice references to previous generations that made me think. I kind of want to sleep with Millat now. I love the one family in it, the chalfens, and...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: Zadie Smith's White Teeth sparkle, but they don't bite

Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:34:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lyagushka - Zadie Smith's first novel, White Teeth, has won wide critical acclaim and collected several literary prizes to boot. So I had fairly high expectations when I began reading it. Unfortunately, I don't believe the book lived up to the hype...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: "voyeurism, cinema verite, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt"

Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:28:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - As a reviewer, i expect to provide plenty of words of my own, but sometimes a writer makes her own best case. White Teeth has a plot, and a structure, and both are well-handled, but not in a stay-up-all-night must-see-what-comes-next sort of way...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: A Kaleidoscope of Modern London

Sun, 2 Sep 2001 12:36:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jmccullough - It's not every book that starts out with a really funny suicide story, but then again, this isn't just every book. Zadie Smith published White Teeth, her first novel, when she was 24. The novel is a kaleidoscopic look at late Twentieth Century London,...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: Zadie Smith's first novel is an awesome debut.

Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:30:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doug_wize - Zadie Smith's first novel, White Teeth was a gamble for me to buy. I didn't hear any reviews regarding this author, but I expected a fresh original read. I purchased her book for about twenty-one-dollars at Border's book store in Huntington, WV. She a...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: The hype is qualified, but word of mouth stops here

Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:56:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spq - Zadie Smith is about the most famous 24-year-old in London right now. Her pretty, tawny face glares out from bookshops, newspapers, literary magazines and general consumer publications. I have to admit that I read her epic novel out of curiosity, both...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: Dazzling First Novel, But Not Without Flaws

Mon, 4 Dec 2000 01:29:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chas_edwards - On the first page of the book, Archie Jones is parked on an anonymous London street with exhaust filling his car. “He was prepared for it. He had flipped a coin and stood staunchly by the results. This was a decided-upon suicide.”

It’s...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: The Sharp Bite Of Zadie Smith

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 02:26:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I have a question: What is it with women writers my age or near my age writing incredible novels?? Not that I'm jealous...um, a little bit... okay, a lot! Okay, I shouldn't be jealous, I shouldn't be jealous-excuse me, I'm going to do some breathing...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: White Teeth: Tragedy or Comedy

Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:28:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lclaypole - Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth is less a tragedy than it is a dark comedy because, apart from fading war memories, there is no tragic death in White Teeth but the death of faith. It is rather more about clashing belief systems on familial and societal...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: London as a Swirling Mosaic in a Young Writer's Eyes

Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:07:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author caravan70 - Already hailed by many reviewers as a contemporary classic, White Teeth, the debut novel of 24-year-old Zadie Smith, is a fascinating, deftly-rendered evocation of the cultural mosaic that is modern London. Although it ultimately fails to convey...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: Zadie Smith's Cross-Section of Modern London

Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:07:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kchowell - On a recent solitary road trip from Dallas to Houston, I happened to catch an interview with Zadie Smith on NPR’s Weekend Edition. I had just finished reading White Teeth, and was immediately riveted…I turned up the volume, closed the...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: A stunning debut

Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:41:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Zadie Smith's debut novel, White Teeth, is a book to fall in love with. A bold, exciting new voice on the literary front, the 24 year old Cambridge graduate has a lot to say and never runs out of ways to say it. Though perhaps too in love...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: See The Light of White Teeth

Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:48:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Circumnavigating the happenings of three families, from long-dead ancestors to rule-breaking youths, Zadie Smith presents the bleak and blessed realities of living in England at any age and in any Age, while the multi-cultural world takes...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: Cutting new "teeth": Zadie Smith's bold voice

Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:56:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Oh, how I wanted to hate this novel. Cross-continental literary sensation Zadie Smith, breaking into the stiff white male Booker Prize bastion in her native UK, is an attractive, bespectacled, twentysomething woman whose debut novel, White Teeth,...

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel: White Teeth Lacks Bite

Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:53:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MarciaYablon - White Teeth is Zadie Smith's first novel and it falls victim to many of the weaknesses common to first novels. There is a lack of polish and cohesiveness that permeates the book. Parts of the book are wordy and rambling while other parts are so sparsely...