Autumn /
By: Smith, Ali [author.].
Publisher: London, England : Penguin Books, 2017Description: 263 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780241973318; 9780241973318:; 0241973317.Subject(s): Autumn -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Aging -- Fiction | Conduct of life -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 Awards: Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2017.Summary: 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...Summary: Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - 'Autumn' is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published: Hamish Hamilton, 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...
Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - 'Autumn' is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.
Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2017.