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Autumn

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

by Ali Smith
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/10/2016
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**SHORTLISTED FOR 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE**

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.

ISBN:
9780241207017
9780241207017
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-10-2016
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
236x155x21mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962.

She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be Both, and Public Library and other stories.

Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be Both won the Baileys Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.

Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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Man Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith has set the bar high for post-Brexit British writing. Autumn is the first in a series in which Smith plays with seasons to depict the cyclical nature of contemporary life. Weaving through time and art forms with effortless beauty and economy, the book challenges the barriers we shroud ourselves in and people to whom we attach worth. Piercing through the layers of wonderfulness is a steady critique of the now fractured UK and way in which its identity has been shaped.

This is a towering achievement of a novel. I was blown away.

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