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02804aam a22003978i 4500 001 A5D78E28DA8911EDBEAB8EDC22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230414010023 008 221123s2023 nyu 000 p eng 010 $a 2022053805 020 $a 0593653734 020 $a 9780593653739 035 $a (OCoLC)1351625769 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d LNC $d YDX $d BDX $d UAP $d JIU $d SILO 041 0 $a enm $a enm 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Smith, Zadie. 245 14 $a The wife of Willesden : $b incorporating: The wife of Willesden's tale, which tale is preceded by The general lock-in and The wife of Willesden's prologue and followed by A retraction, told in verse couplets ; translated from the Chaucerian into North Weezian / $c Zadie Smith. 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Books, $c 2023. 300 $a xviii, 189 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a The Wife of Willesden was first presented by Kiln Theatre in association with Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture, on the occasion of the Brent 2020 pilgrimage and celebration. 520 $a "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 The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden 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. A thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female sexual power, written with singular verve and wit, The Wife of Willesden shows why Zadie Smith is one of the sharpest and most versatile writers working today"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $t Chaucer's Retraction. $t The General Lock-In -- $t The Wife of Willesden's Prologue -- $t The Wife of Willesden's Tale -- $t A Retraction -- $t From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer -- $t The Wife of Bath's Prologue -- $t The Wife of Bath's Tale -- $t Chaucer's Retraction. 650 0 $a Women $v Drama. 650 0 $a Women $v Poetry. 655 7 $a Theatrical adaptations. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Verse drama. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 700 12 $a Smith, Zadie. $t Wife of Willesden. 700 12 $a Chaucer, Geoffrey, $d -1400. $t Wife of Bath's tale. 941 $a 3 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020239.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032555.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230414010107.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5D78E28DA8911EDBEAB8EDC22ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search