Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)

Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
A New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR,Â Financial Times, Southern Living, The Guardian, and Kirkus ReviewsÂ Best Book of the Year
Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize

Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, 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.

Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartetâ€”four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)â€”and it casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of?Â Shakespearean jeu dâ€™esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making.
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Hereâ€™s where weâ€™re living. Hereâ€™s time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic.Â

From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, a story about aging and time and love and stories themselves.
Country USA
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-02-07
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Anchor
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-02-07
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)

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