The Seasonal Series - Book 1
Autumn
By
Ali Smith
Read by
Melody Grove
Release:
02/07/2017
Runtime:
5h 29m
Unabridged
Quantity:
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.
“Beautiful, subtle. … Brimming with humanity and bending, despite everything, toward hope.”—New York Times Book Review
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A Washington Post Notable Book • One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The New York Times, Martha Kearney/The Guardian, Slate, Chicago Tribune, Southern Living, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The Morning News, Kirkus Reviews • Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize
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.
“Beautiful, subtle. … Brimming with humanity and bending, despite everything, toward hope.”—New York Times Book Review
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A Washington Post Notable Book • One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The New York Times, Martha Kearney/The Guardian, Slate, Chicago Tribune, Southern Living, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The Morning News, Kirkus Reviews • Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize
Release:
2017-02-07
Runtime:
5h 29m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781501945618
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc.
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