{"product_id":"autumn-book-ali-smith-9781101870730","title":"Autumn","description":"\u003cb\u003eMAN BOKER PRIZE FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAutumn. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAli Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her \u003ci\u003eSeasonal \u003c\/i\u003equartet--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here's where we're living. Here's time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575589576977,"sku":"GOR013652906","price":30.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50096644358417,"sku":"CIN1101870737G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50296490656017,"sku":"CIN1101870737A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50329948619025,"sku":"CIN1101870737VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109100810513,"sku":"GOR008954745","price":18.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1101870737.jpg?v=1751048442","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/autumn-book-ali-smith-9781101870730","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}