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Ali Smith - Winter (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Seasonal Quartet #2.
Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2018.
From the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both . . . The unmissable second novel in Ali Smith's acclaimed 'Seasonal' quartet.
Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter.
The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.
In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.
It's the season that teaches us survival.
Here comes Winter.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
- Published : 2017 (This Edition 2018 - Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780241973332
- SKU : B002677
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'Leaping, laughing, sad, generous and winter-wise, this is a thing of grace.' - The Guardian.
'In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith, who makes you feel known, who seems to speak to your own private weirdnesses, is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians.' - Alex Preston, The Financial Times.
'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting.' - The Times.
'Terrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul.' - The Daily Mail.
'Bold and brilliant.' - The Observer.
"Ali Smith is simply incapable of writing a dull paragraph." - New Statesman.
"In Winter, the Scottish novelist Ali Smith is both intensely political and deliciously playful." - NY Times.
The Author
Ali Smith CBE FRSL is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting". Ali Smith is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary novelists.
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