Autumn
Author: Smith, Ali
ISBN: 9780241973318
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 07 Sep 2017
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;The novel of the year is obviously Ali SmithP#39;s Plt;iPgt;Autumn... Plt;/iPgt;Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything IP#39;ve read this yearP#39; Olivia Laing,Plt;iPgt; ObserverPlt;/iPgt;
Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK 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.Plt;BRPgt;Ali SmithP#39;s new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. From Shakespearian jeu dP#39;esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now.Plt;BRPgt;Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn.
ISBN: 9780241973318
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 07 Sep 2017
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;The novel of the year is obviously Ali SmithP#39;s Plt;iPgt;Autumn... Plt;/iPgt;Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything IP#39;ve read this yearP#39; Olivia Laing,Plt;iPgt; ObserverPlt;/iPgt;
Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK 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.Plt;BRPgt;Ali SmithP#39;s new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. From Shakespearian jeu dP#39;esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now.Plt;BRPgt;Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn.
