Autumn
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  • Published: 20 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241973301
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Autumn

SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

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7 Sep 2017
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20 Oct 2016
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'The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn... Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I've read this year' Olivia Laing, Observer

Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK 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.
Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. From Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now.
Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn.
  • Published: 20 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241973301
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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Praise for Autumn

Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities

The Guardian

Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit

Cressida Connolly

Publisher's description. Autumn 2016: the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. The seasons roll round as ever. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting, light-footed, time-travelling novel. This is a story about right now, this minute; about ageing and time and love and stories themselves. Here comes Autumn.

Penguin

She is, of course, Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting

Observer

The first serious Brexit novel

Financial Times

Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies, trees and all the dimensions of love

Deborah Levy

Unbearably moving, shrewd and dreamy, playful, strange [and] soulful...[An] assessment of what it means to be alive...Ali Smith has a beautiful mind and where her mind goes, you want to follow...I am struck by, and stuck on, Autumn.

New York Times
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