Seasonal Quartet. Autumn; Winter; Spring; Summer.* A SUPERB SET OF QUARTET TITLES, SIGNED . 1ST / 1ST

Smith, Ali

ISBN 10: 0241207002 / ISBN 13: 9780241207000

Published by Hamish Hamilton

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UK First editions, first impressions, of the complete Seasonal Quartet, each volume signed by the author on the title page. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. All four volumes are in fine unread condition - all four are first printings in fine wrap around bands. ALL 4 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Books are always securely packed with plenty of protection in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 business days) - EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seasonal Quartet. Autumn; Winter; Spring; Summer.* A SUPERB SET OF QUARTET TITLES, SIGNED . 1ST / 1ST
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241207002
• ISBN 13: 9780241207000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Ali Smith is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, Public library and other stories and Autumn. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.