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Ali Smith - Summer (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Seasonal Quartet #4.
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021.
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021.
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer.
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 what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?
Summer.
Details
- Format : Larger, Hardback Sized, 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good (A touch of light fade to parts of front cover, otherwise As New)
- Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
- Published : 2020 (Hamish Hamilton - 1st Paperback Edition)
- ISBN : 9780241207079
- SKU : B002994
- PPC : SP500gm
- RRP : £14.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
Note - No Penguin Logo.
External Reviews
"The culmination of a hugely ambitious and fast-paced literary project, Summer continues the interplay between the recent past and modern day society that marked out Smith's preceding works as so resonant and insightful." - Waterstones.
'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet.' - Evening Standard.
'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely.' - Evening Standard.
'This singular writer has found her moment.' - Prospect.
'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable.' - The Guardian.
'Few writers today can make a more compelling claim to singularity of innovation and sustained brilliance.' - TLS.
'The bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day's vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer.' - The Washington Post.
'Smith brings this brilliant quartet to a satisfying close.' - NPR.
'The final flourish of a mazy and beautiful quartet.' - The Telegraph.
'Sublime.' - The Boston Globe.
'Brilliant.' - The Scotsman.
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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