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Autumn: A Novel by Ali Smith, Ali Smith is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Autumn: A Novel about?

The first volume of a shape-shifting seasonal quartet from Ali Smith about our time, past time, ageing, love and stories themselves. Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about autumn in 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. And the seasons roll round, as ever. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art (via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery), Autumn is a witty 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, and what harvest means."Smith’s writing is light and playful, deceptively simple, skipping along like a

Who reads Autumn: A Novel?

Author

Ali Smith, Ali Smith

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd;Penguin Canada

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241973301

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Contemporary Fiction, Fiction