THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Her best book yet, a
dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a
chorus of voices' Observer 'A story of our times... Savour it,
because there is just one instalment left' Evening Standard 'Spring
weaves a story around the most pressing issues of our time... Smith
tells stories in a voice you can't help but listen to' The Times
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the
Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in
the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal
Quartet What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin,
Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the
north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a
woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With
an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles,
one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith
tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls
and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is
changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs
eternal. Praise for the Seasonal Quartet: 'Transcendental writing
about art, death, political lies, and all the dimensions of love.
It's a case not so much of reading between the lines as of being
blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way' Deborah
Levy on Autumn 'The novel of the year is obviously Autumn, which
managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of
post-Brexit Britain' Olivia Laing, Observer on Autumn 'Ali Smith is
flat-out brilliant, and she's on fire these days... Combining
brainy playfulness with depth, topicality with timelessness, and
complexity with accessibility while delivering an impassioned
defence of human decency and art' NPR on Winter 'Rank[s] among the
most original, consoling and inspiring of the artistic responses to
'this mad and bitter mess' of the present' Financial Times on
Winter 'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of
spirit that you feel Dickens would have recognised... Smith is
engaged in an extended process of mythologizing the present states
of Britain... Luminously beautiful' Observer on Winter
General
Imprint: |
Hamish Hamilton
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Seasonal Quartet |
Release date: |
March 2019 |
Authors: |
Ali Smith
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-20705-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-241-20705-3 |
Barcode: |
9780241207055 |
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