Spring

Ali Smith

ISBN 10: 067007005X / ISBN 13: 9780670070053

Published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 2019

About this Item

This is the first Canadian edition with the Canadian price on the dustjacket. The dustjacket design also differs from the UK edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spring
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067007005X
• ISBN 13: 9780670070053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

"This is the most political book thus far in this earthy and humane series. Its heart is worn far out on its sleeve. It beats arrhythmically somewhere down near the knuckles....Smith's vision isn't fundamentally pessimistic, however. There's too much squirming life in her fiction, slashes of cleansing light for those who seek it." - New York Times

Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices.--The Guardian

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

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.