Autumn
A Novel
by Ali Smith
Pub Date
Description
A Washington Post Notable Book and One of the 10 Best Books of the Year from The New York Times
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.
Advance Praise
"This is the place to come out and say it: Ali Smith has a beautiful mind. I found this book to be unbearably moving in its playful, strange, soulful assessment of what it means to be alive at a somber time. She is speaking about sand, but she might be talking about Western civilization when she praises the “array of colors of even the pulverized world." —The New York Times
“Smith, in reckoning with the catastrophe and wreckage of a fraught historical moment, picks through it just as precisely to reveal the beauty and the humanity buried deep below the surface.” —The Atlantic
“AUTUMN is clever and invigorating. The promise of three more books to come is something to be savored.” —The Washington Times
“AUTUMN shimmers with wit, melancholy, grief, joy, wisdom, small acts of love and, always, wonder at the seasons.” —The Boston Globe
“AUTUMN works convincingly as an aesthetic marker of political darkness and its repudiation.”
—Chicago Review of Books
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781101870730 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
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