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Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New ZealandThe Secret Bookshop
AbeBooks seller since January 11, 2016
Condition: Used - Near fine
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A very clean copy. Feels unread. A contemporary novel exploring Britain during a period of political division, uncertainty and hostility towards migrants. It brings together a grieving filmmaker, a young woman working in an immigration detention centre, and a remarkable schoolgirl whose actions challenge the authorities around her. Their intersecting stories examine displacement, borders, loss, friendship and social division, while drawing on art, literature and the natural renewal of spring to explore the possibility of connection and hope.
Seller Inventory # 053109
- Title
- Spring
- Author
- Smith Ali
- Publisher
- PENGUIN, UK
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 024197335X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241973356
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 3 of 4: Seasonal Quartet
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith''s Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.
''Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices'' Observer
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?
Spring. The great connective.
With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare''s most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.
The time we''re living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?
Hope springs eternal.
Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith''s new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
*****
''An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons'' Independent
''Smith is a masterful storyteller . . . Savour it'' Evening Standard
''Infectious in its energy and warmth'' Daily Telegraph
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The Secret Bookshop
Tararua, New Zealand
AbeBooks seller since January 11, 2016
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