Autumn A Novel [Paperback]

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year 
AWashington PostNotable 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 friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look 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,Autumnis the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet, 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. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories,Autumnis an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves.“Beautiful, subtle. . . . Brimming with humanity and bending, despite everything, toward hope.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Shimmers with wit, melancholy, grief, joy, wisdom, small acts of love and, always, wonder at the seasons.” —The Boston Globe

“Ali Smith has a beautiful mind. [Autumnis] unbearably moving in its playful, strange, soulful assessment of what it means to be alive at a somber time.” —The New York Times

“Bliss from beginning to end. . . . However stormy the events and themes of Smith’s work, their presiding spirit is sunny, l£*