Autumn: A Novel

Ali Smith

Autumn: A Novel
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
17 October 2017
Pages
288
ISBN
9781101969946

Autumn: A Novel

Ali Smith

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.

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