Autumn
Author(s): Ali Smith
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means. Autumn is the first installment in Ali Smith's novel quartet Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.
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Publisher's description. Autumn 2016: the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. The seasons roll round as ever. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting, light-footed, time-travelling novel. This is a story about right now, this minute; about ageing and time and love and stories themselves. Here comes Autumn. Penguin Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies, trees and all the dimensions of love Deborah Levy The first serious Brexit novel Financial Times Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit Cressida Connolly She is, of course, Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting Observer Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities The Guardian
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- : 01 October 0000
- : 01 October 2016
- : books
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- : Ali Smith
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