{"product_id":"autumn-ali-smith-paperback","title":"Autumn -- Ali Smith, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - The first novel in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love--and stories themselves.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAutumn. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ali Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101969946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAli Smith\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many works of fiction, including the novel \u003ci\u003eHotel World, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eHow to be both, \u003c\/i\u003e was a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Costa Novel Award, and the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith lives in Cambridge, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650610192612,"sku":"9781101969946","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781101969946.jpg?v=1777567530","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/autumn-ali-smith-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}