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Loading... Autumn: SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 (Seasonal Quartet) (original 2016; edition 2017)by Ali Smith (Author)
Work InformationAutumn by Ali Smith (2016)
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https://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022006-autumn-ali-smith.html (  ) tamaranth | Jan 19, 2022 |  There are some beautiful passages, and I enjoy the relationship and developing stories of Daniel and Elisabeth, but overall, this was not a book I enjoyed. I listened to the audio and there were too many passages that were just litanies of things and thoughts. I felt as if Smith was just trying to be too clever and stream-of-consciousy, and it really didn't work I enjoyed her ongoing struggles to get her passport! (  ) MarshaKT | Jan 16, 2022 | Elisabeth’s quirky and neglectful mother often leaves her young daughter to her own devices. Elisabeth becomes fast friends with her neighbor, the elderly Mr Gluck, and is introduced to a new world that opens her eyes to art, philosophy and conversation. As she grows up, she loses touch, but on a return visit home, she learns that Mr Gluck is now in a care home. He is no longer verbal, but Elisabeth visits him and revisits their friendship in a stream of consciousness of wonderful memories. At the same time she is still dealing with her unorthodox mother. There are many insights on aging – how the autumn of one’s life is green and golden and doesn’t look much different than summer. But as autumn progresses, winter approaches. This is the first published in a quartet of books named for the seasons.I had not read Ali Smith previously. I plan to go on with the quartet and also perhaps other of Ali’s Smith’s work. It’s always fun to find a new author. (  ) streamsong | Dec 10, 2021 | Quirky novel that tried to weave together a whole lot of things, or maybe put them all together into a collage ("college"). The relationship between Elisabeth and Daniel was nice, but we were also lead down some really strange back alleys that didn't seem to go anywhere. I'm willing to continue with the series, however, to see if we get more of a coherent story. (  ) Octavia78 | Nov 28, 2021 | I very nearly bailed on this novel when I realized it was more of a stream-of-consciousness style. But I am so glad I stayed with it. Interesting how the real stories of a mostly forgotten 1960s female artist and also Brexit are integrated into the lives of fictional characters Elisabeth and her elderly friend Daniel. I‘ll definitely seek more of Ali Smith (a couple of her books— not this one— are on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list). ( ) ValerieAndBooks | Nov 8, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
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"From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means"-- No library descriptions found. 
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