Smith, Ali - Autumn

Auteur: Ali Smith
Illustrator: /
Vertaler: /
Titel: Autumn
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Anchor Books

Afmetingen: 25x222x140 mm
Gewicht: 295 gram
ISBN:
Jaar: 2017
Bindwijze: Paperback
Pagina's: 264
Genre: Fictie, Literatuur

Beschrijving:
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Dwight Garner/The New York Times, Martha Kearney/The Guardian, Southern Living, The Morning News, Kirkus Reviews

Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look 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.

A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves.