Book
Autumn
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- ISBN: 9781101870730
- ISBN: 1101870737
- ISBN: 9781101870747
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Physical Description:
264 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | SMITH A (Text) | 33126021853233 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A debut installment in a series about aging, time, love and the nature of stories examines the dynamics of pop culture, meditation and harvests in a world growing more bordered and exclusive. By the Booker Prize-nominated author ofHow to Be Both . - Baker & Taylor
"From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love AliSmith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, 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"-- - Baker & Taylor
The debut installment in a series about aging, time, and the nature of stories follows the experiences of a thirty-something lecturer in London who muses on love, art, and life through her relationship with her centenarian former neighbor. - Random House, Inc.
A Man Booker Prize Finalist, the first novel in Ali Smithâs Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and loveâand stories themselves.
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A Washington Post Notable Book and One of the 10 Best Books of the Year from The New York Times
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Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friendsâDaniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984âlook to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands 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.
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A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smithâs Seasonal Quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu dâesprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories.