Autumn

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.

Author: Ali Smith
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/17/2017
Series: Seasonal Quartet
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781101969946
Language: English