Autumn

Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness That s what it felt like for Keats in 1819 How about Autumn 2016 Daniel is a century old Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future The United Kingdom is in pieces, 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 Ali Smith s new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means It is the first installment of herSeasonal quartet four stand alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical as the seasons are 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 the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making Here s where we re living Here s time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape shifting series, wide ranging in time scale and light footed through histories, a story about aging and time and love and stories themselves. Read Autumn – kino-fada.fr I don t know I don t know what to write about Autumn I don t even know what I ve read What was I supposed to get from this book, what was the purpose Was it a Brexit novel I don t think so It does talk some about Brexit But it also talks about a strange friendship between a little girl presently grown up and an old man Odd conversations those two had And about a dubio...This is EnglandAutumn is to be the first instalment of a seasonal quartet that Ali Smith plans to write 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 instalment was a wondrous introduction to Smith s prose for me, so I eagerly look forward to the next parts now.Autumn is a playful, multi layered and at times delectably subversive novel on the floating of time, aging, This is EnglandAutumn is to be the first instalment of a seasonal quartet that Ali Smith plans to write 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 instalment was a wondrous introduction to Smith s prose for me, so I eagerly look forward to the next parts now.Autumn is a playful, multi layered and at times delectably subversive novel on the floating of time, aging, identity, art, love and friendship...Ali Smith is not an easy author to read and yet her words and thoughts are beautiful If you like a linear plot, you will not find it here, though it is mostly set in the period after Brexit, it goes back and forth in time To a friendship between a young girl and an elderly man, a man who had quite a past, which is slowly uncovered The thoughts expressed about Brexit are the same many are expressing here in the states after our recent election Wonderfully and adroitly expressed about the way Ali Smith is not an easy author to read and yet her words and thoughts are beautiful If you like...Hailed as the first post Brexit novel, inAutumnAli 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 central theme shows a turnaround that is nearly insane Smith must have practically vomited this novel into her word processor, which makes its utter flawlessness almost divine The novel begins with a man, Daniel Hailed as the first post Brexit novel, inAutumnAli 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 central theme shows a turnaround that is nearly insane Smith must have practically vomited this novel into her word processor, which makes its utter flawlessness almost divine The novel begins with a man, Daniel Gluck, who seems to have washed up on a beach Believing he has died he casts his eye along the beach and sees evenlike him The corpses of refugees line the beach, interspersed between lounging sunbathers and laughing children who seem to take no notice...Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.My fourth book from the Booker longlist, this is another that, like Reservoir 13, would have made a worthy winner At the time of its release this book was billed as the first Brexit novel, but there is so muchto it than thatupdate 19 Oct Sadly, and yet again, Ali Smith did not win, but I was very impressed by her performance and the way she encouraged Emily Fridlund and Fiona Mozley at the Nottingham shortlist readings event, which I attended last week the other three shortlisted wri My fourth book from the Booker longlist, this is another that, like Reservoir 13, would have made a worthy winner At the time of its release this book was billed as the first Brexit novel, but there is so muchto it than thatupdate 19 Oct Sadly, and yet again, Ali Smith did not win, but I was very impressed by her performance and the way she encouraged Emily Fridlund and Fiona Moz...April come she willWhen streams are ripe and swelled with rainMay she will stayResting in my arms againJune she ll change her tuneIn restless walks she ll prowl the nightApril Come She Will lyrics by Paul Simon It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times Traveling back and forth through time, the past to the present, from Elisabeth s childhood and meeting her new neighbor Daniel Gluck, to the brink of the political climate that began with Brexit, this story covers a lot of terriApril come she willWhen streams are ripe and swelled with rainMay she will stayResting in my arms againJune she ll change her tuneIn restless walks she ll prowl the nightApril Come She Will lyrics by Paul Simon It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times Traveling back and forth through time, the past to the present, from Elisabeth s childhood and meeting her new neighbor Daniel Gluck, to the brink of the political climate that began with Brexit, this story covers a lot of territory in a rather fluid way, dealing with aging, love in its many shapes and forms, friendship, art and artists, books and the telling of stories, the concept of time, music, identity, the culture of television, politics, sexual inequality, division of people, division of countries, and global warming.When first they meet, Elisabeth ...My thoughts are all over the place for this book maybe fitting because this is what this book is as well all over the place There is undeniable brilliance here sentences so profound they made me stop in my tracks, word plays so wonderful I had to read them twice, musing on a great number of important things It comes as no surprise that Ali Smith is a genius But for some reasons these sparks of brilliance never came together for a coherent whole for me and I guess this was also the point My thoughts are all over the place for this book maybe fitting because this is what this book is as well all over the place There is undeniable brilliance here sentences so profound they made me stop in my tracks, word plays so wonderful I had to read them twice, musing on a great number of important things It comes as no surprise that Ali Smith is a genius But for some reasons these sparks of brilliance never came together for a coherent whole for me and I guess this was also the point There is no proper coherence in life and in art and Ali Smith captures this perfectly.At the core of this book is the friendship between Elisabeth and her older neighbour Daniel and the profound effect on her life he has opening to her a world of art and cleverness This book is also filled with musings on art especially that by w...I m not sure I can do justice to reviewing this or explaining what it is about I suspect each time it s read, a new layer is revealed and it becomes something quite different Let me just say the writing and wordplay is superb Imaginative, perceptive, unexpectedly quite funny in places, and tender in others I d say the resounding theme in this book is loss summer gives way to autumn in the seasons and in our lives, but there is beauty to be found in the journey.Don t go in to this expectin I m not sure I can do justice to reviewing this or explaining what it is about I suspect each time it s read, a new layer is revealed and it becomes something quite different Let me just say the writing and wordplay is superb Imaginative, perceptive, unexpectedly quite funny in places, and tender in others I d say the resounding theme in this book is loss summer gives way to autumn in the seasons and in our lives, but there is beauty to be found in the journey.Don t go in to this expecting a plot, at least in not in the traditional sense It slike a half remembered dream with two central characters who weave in and out of each other s lives, reliving their separate memories and experiences against the backdrop of various British touchpoints the Profumo politi...It is November and outside my front door roses are still blooming Their color is a deep rich clear pink They look better than they did in the dry heat of summer.Smith s first novel in her proposed quartet of volumes is an utter delight I d never encountered her voice before but when I got to the end, I looked again at the beginning Just as well, because I had forgotten that Daniel speaks, briefly, before the story gets picked up by his granddaughter, Elisabeth, with an s What I find quee It is November and outside my front door roses are still blooming Their color is a deep rich clear pink They look better than they did in the dry heat of summer.Smith s first novel in her proposed quartet of volumes is an utter delight I d never encountered her voice before but when I got to the end, I looked again at the beginning Just as well, because I had forgotten that Daniel speaks, briefly, before the story gets picked up by his granddaughter, Elisabeth, with an s What I find queer, now having finished the novel, is why people talk about this as a Brexit novel It is a novel of our times, told by a smart and savvy observer, but I would have put ...

• English
• 10 August 2017
Ali Smith
• Hardcover
• 264 pages
• 0241207002
• Ali Smith
• Autumn