Autumn

Smith, Ali

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Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art – via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery – ‘Autumn’ is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The 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.

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Publish Date: 31/08/2017

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SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017

A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.

‘Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting’
The Times

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 . . .

Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith’s new novel, Companion piece, is available now.

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ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

‘Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting’ The Times

‘Bold and brilliant’ Observer

‘Terrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul’ Daily Mail

Additional information

Weight 193 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 17 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

263

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K