Autumn

Locations
Call Number: Fiction / Smith, Ali, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Smith, Ali
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

"From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, 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, what harvest means"-- Provided by publisher.

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COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Dissociating but in a good way submitted by lexinylander on July 12, 2018, 11:46pm Ali Smith's books always make me feel a little bit like I'm dissociating, but in a good way. This one was no exception and I await the other two in the series and look forward to getting my hands on the next one in the quartet whenever it finds its way to me.

"stained glass isn't just for churches, it can be for anywhere. It doesn't have to be for holy things, it can be for anything."

"The sycamore seeds hit the glass in the wind like - no, not like anything else, like sycamore seeds hitting window glass."

immersive reading submitted by John Staunton on August 1, 2018, 9:33pm such wonderful writing. inventive and challenges you from the start--but in a way that makes you want to keep with it. can't wait to get "Winter" (the next in the 'series')