Ali Smith
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
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,...
2) Summer
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
3) Autumn
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
4) Winter
Author
Series
Seasonal volume Book 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four people converge on a house in Cornwall for Christmas, in a story that depicts in wry observations a bleak, post-truth era rooted in history, memory, art, and laughter at a time of endurance and survival.
5) Spring
Author
Series
Seasonal quartet volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted-author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series-a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit. "A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child...