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MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTLong-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize
One of theNew York Times10 Best Books of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Dwight Garner/The New York Times, Martha Kearney/The Guardian, Slate, Chicago Tribune,Southern Living, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel,The Morning News, Kirkus Reviews
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friendsDaniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands 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.
A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smiths Seasonal quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu desprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and loveand stories themselves.