5/20/2023 0 Comments Autumn by Ali Smith![]() ![]() 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's time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic. 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. This first in a seasonal quartet casts an eye over our own time. According to Hernández in his 'Review on Ali Smiths Novel Autumn' the conflict between the mother and the girl is highlighted as two opposite stances in the novel. 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. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. ![]() Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. ![]() The latest, breathtakingly inventive novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of 'How to be both' 'Autumn'. The latest breathtakingly inventive novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Autumn Season of mists and. ![]()
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