Ebook {Epub PDF} Autumn by Ali Smith

Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, Winter, Autumn, Public Library and other Stories, and How to be Both, which won the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work . Hailed as the first post-Brexit novel, in Autumn Ali Smith proves to us all that she is probably the greatest writer currently working in the United Kingdom. The fact that this novel was published a mere four months after the disastrous Brexit vote but yet analyses its aftermath as a /5. Autumn is a post-Brexit novel of love, truth, and time by Ali Smith in which year-old Elisabeth Demand reflects on her almost lifelong romantic-spiritual love affair with year-old Daniel Gluck.

Autumn is the first instalment of Ali Smith's 'seasonal quartet' - a cycle 'exploring the subjective experience of time, questioning the nature of time itself'. Triggered to read it by the title - autumn is my favourite season - this first episode was a wondrous introduction to Smith's writing for me. Awaiting, anticipating. Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities; the "endless sad fragility" of mortal lives." —The Guardian "In a world that seems to be crumbling around us, thank goodness we've still got Ali Smith telling us stories about it." —The Pool. Autumn. Pantheon Books, Autumn is a post-Brexit novel of love, truth, and time by Ali Smith in which year-old Elisabeth Demand reflects on her almost lifelong romantic-spiritual love affair with year-old Daniel Gluck. As the novel gets under way, the narrator - who is never identified but who speaks to the reader as though a.

ALI SMITH was born in Inverness, Scotland, in and lives in Cambridge, England. She is the author of Autumn, How to be both, There but for the, Artful, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories. Ali Smith: Autumn. This the first in Ali Smith’s Seasons tetralogy and allegedly the first post-Brexit novel. In it we follow two main characters: Elisabeth Demand, who is thirty-two, single and is a lecturer in history of art. (Her surname is, according to Daniel, a corruption of the French de monde, i.e. of the world.). Autumn is a novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published by Hamish Hamilton. It is the first of four seasonal ‘state of the nation’ works. Written rapidly after the United Kingdom's European Union membership referendum, it was widely regarded as the first 'post-Brexit novel' dealing with the issues raised by the voters' decision.