SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819.
How about Autumn 2016?
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.
Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. This first in a seasonal quartet casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history-making.
Here's where we're living. Here's time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic.
From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.
Here comes Autumn.
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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 . . .
'A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities' Guardian
'Bravura, brilliant and unsettling . . . leaving you marvelling' Financial Times
'Fantastic' Spectator
'A terrific writer. There is an awful lot to lift the soul, not least Smith's extraordinary playful use of language' Daily Mail
'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting' The Times
'Bold and brilliant' Observer
'Smith straddles the elegiac and the celebratory through this glorious novel' Scotsman
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine original half size dustwrapper as issued. Signed and dated14 October 2017 by the Author on the title page. Signed at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. 2017 Booker Shortlist. A 100 micron full size dustwrapper has been made for the book [see last picture]. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 009769
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A superb mint set of the four volumes of this acclaimed quartet. Vol 1 Autumn: SIGNED , LINED,'A month ago it was June' and Publication Day DATED 20 October 2016. Vol 2 Winter:SIGNED, LINED,' Fear no more the heat of the sun' and Publication Day DATED 2 November 2017. Vol 3 Spring: SIGNED, LINED 'April: It tells us everything' and Publication Day DATED 28 March 2019 and finally Vol 4 Summer: SIGNED to the title page. All four volumes are in mint iconic David Hockney unclipped dust wrappers and all are signed by Ali Smith to the title page, not to a bookplate or tipped in page.An outstanding set BOXED DESPATCH. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1597145504665