Autumn A Novel |
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Author:
| Smith, Ali |
Series title: | Seasonal Quartet Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-101-96994-6 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2017 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Anchor |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * The first novel in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love--and stories themselves. Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends--Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984--look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The...
More Description MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * The first novel in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love--and stories themselves.
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends--Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984--look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.
A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories.