Ali Smith
1) Autumn
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English
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Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Thats what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 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. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.
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English
Description
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles' story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing...
3) Winter
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Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sophia Cleves is seeing things. Her son, Art, is seeing things himself. Winter makes all things visible-- history, memory, art, love.... When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future? Following her astonishing Seasonal Quartet, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary,...
5) Summer
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Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown--and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin? And...
6) Spring
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious,...
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Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives-- our own personal libraries-- make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless...