Autumn by Ali Smith

‘The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith’s Autumn… Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I’ve read this year’ Olivia Laing, Observer

Autumn 2016- Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK 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 filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. From Shakespearian jeu d’esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now.
Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn.

“Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of pop art, Autumn is [an] … 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”–

About the Author: Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

31 Aug 2017
 

Autumn by Ali Smith ISBN 9780241973318