Autumn - Ali Smith

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.

TITLE: Autumn

AUTHOR: Ali Smith

SKU: 9780241207017

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 17/10/2016

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 272

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 155 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm

WEIGHT: 364 gr