6/2/2023 0 Comments Autumn by Ali SmithThe novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. Autumn is partly about a friendship between Elisabeth Demand, a lecturer in art history, and Daniel Gluck, who was Elisabeth’s neighbor when she was a child, and who is now very old, and dying. Seasonal, comprised of four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. In keeping with the season, hope shines through the novel’s pages. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and - good news for fans! - is the first installment in a quartet. By the time Smith started writing Spring in 2019, teenagers had taken up school strikes for the climate. Listeners love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both, a breathtakingly inventive new novel - about aging, time, love, and stories themselves - that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal.
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