MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - The first novel in Ali Smith's Seasonal
Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love--and
stories themselves.
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old
friends--Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984--look to
both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands 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.
A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth,
Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, and
it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of?
Shakespearean jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy
of 1960s pop art. Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and
light-footed through histories.