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Autumn
A Literary Fiction Novel by Ali Smith
Book 1 of the Seasonal Quartet Series
Subgenres:
- Contemporary,
- Friendship,
- Political Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Intergenerational friendships shaped by turbulent political moments
- Literary fiction that weaves art, poetry, and cultural history
- Stories that meditate on time, memory, and the changing seasons
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The first novel in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves.
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.
Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories.
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