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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.
'Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices' Observer
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?
Spring. The great connective.
With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.
The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?
Hope springs eternal.
Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
*****
'An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons' Independent
'Smith is a masterful storyteller . . . Savour it' Evening Standard
'Infectious in its energy and warmth' Daily Telegraph
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Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet. Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.
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Condition: Como nuevo. : En 'Spring', Ali Smith nos presenta la tercera entrega de su aclamado Cuarteto Estacional. En esta novela, Smith explora temas como el amor, el tiempo, el arte y la política, entrelazando personajes y situaciones de manera magistral. Con referencias a Shakespeare y una prosa que ha sido calificada de 'deslumbrante' por Observer, 'Spring' es una invitación a la esperanza en tiempos difíciles. Una obra que une el pasado y el presente con un coro de voces, iluminando un camino para salir de la pesadilla actual. EAN: 9780241973356 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Spring Autor: Ali Smith Editorial: Penguin Books Idioma: en Páginas: 352 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-11-28-e90199eb
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