Ali Smith
Hardcover | Pages: 264 pages Rating: 3.71 | 44625 Users | 3625 Reviews
List Books As Autumn (Seasonal #1)
| Original Title: | Autumn |
| ISBN: | 0241207002 (ISBN13: 9780241207000) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Seasonal #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2017), Gordon Burn Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017) |
Explanation Supposing Books Autumn (Seasonal #1)
I don’t know. I don’t know what to write about Autumn. I don’t even know what I’ve read. What was I supposed to get from this book, what was the purpose? Was it a Brexit novel? I don’t think so. It does talk some about Brexit. But it also talks about a strange friendship between a little girl (presently grown up) and an old man. Odd conversations those two had. And about a dubious Pop Artist. There were also a few weird, moderately fun, post office conversations. There were some interesting parts and some parts that I could not get, no matter how much I was frowning at the page. There were jumps from one time line to another. There were dreams, death dreams There were quotations from books. There were other stuff that I did not care for or had any idea what they meant. Something about a sexual scandal. As you can see, I cannot write a coherent review because I did not think the book was coherent either. I get it, I appreciate the originality and all. That’s why I’m giving it 3 stars. There were good parts, I even smiled once or twice but I cannot say I enjoyed the experience. Most likely, I am not the right person to read Ali Smith. Sorry I cannot do better. To make up for it will post the visual opinion of my cat on this novel. I have the impression she enjoyed it more than I did. She thinks it tasted delicious.
I know, I know. Cat pictures for a serious book shortlisted to the Booker Prize. I don’t care. The author spent half the book writing about some strange collages of a Pop Art painter with all the details included, so I can do whatever I want with my review. It is another form of art, isn’t it? . I've probably gone mad.
Specify Regarding Books Autumn (Seasonal #1)
| Title | : | Autumn (Seasonal #1) |
| Author | : | Ali Smith |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 264 pages |
| Published | : | October 20th 2016 by Hamish Hamilton |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. 21st Century |
Rating Regarding Books Autumn (Seasonal #1)
Ratings: 3.71 From 44625 Users | 3625 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books Autumn (Seasonal #1)
I finished this novel a few days ago, but put off the review. To speak quite frankly, I think Autumn is a novel that is a touch too smart for me to properly wrap my head around. Smith's prose flips, twists, jumps, and skitters across the page with vivacity and wit, but also left me feeling overwhelmed with stylistic experimentation. So, I turned to interviews with Smith and reviews others have written to better understand what I had just read.It isn't simply the writing that left me confused,This is EnglandAutumn is to be the first instalment of a seasonal quartet that Ali Smith plans to write - a cycle exploring the subjective experience of time, questioning the nature of time itself'. Triggered to read it by the title autumn is my favourite season this first instalment was a wondrous introduction to Smiths prose for me, so I eagerly look forward to the next parts now.Autumn is a playful, multi-layered and at times delectably subversive novel on the floating of time, aging,
[A formidable 3.5][Originally appeared here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/li...]She has done it in the past; and she does it again here. Ali Smiths fixation on, and a visible mastery of, story-telling across timeline, in no particular order, shines in this experimental, breezy novel as well.Centred around the 30-something Elisabeth Demand and her centenarian friend, Daniel Gluck, Autumn is a long, vibrant, occasionally melancholic, sometimes acerbic but entirely warming season of their
I dont know. I dont know what to write about Autumn. I dont even know what Ive read. What was I supposed to get from this book, what was the purpose? Was it a Brexit novel? I dont think so. It does talk some about Brexit. But it also talks about a strange friendship between a little girl (presently grown up) and an old man. Odd conversations those two had. And about a dubious Pop Artist. There were also a few weird, moderately fun, post office conversations. There were some interesting parts and
My thoughts are all over the place for this book maybe fitting because this is what this book is as well: all over the place. There is undeniable brilliance here: sentences so profound they made me stop in my tracks, word plays so wonderful I had to read them twice, musing on a great number of important things. It comes as no surprise that Ali Smith is a genius. But for some reasons these sparks of brilliance never came together for a coherent whole for me and I guess this was also the point.
My fourth book from the Booker longlist, this is another that, like Reservoir 13, would have made a worthy winner. At the time of its release this book was billed as the first Brexit novel, but there is so much more to it than that. update 19 Oct - Sadly, and yet again, Ali Smith did not win, but I was very impressed by her performance and the way she encouraged Emily Fridlund and Fiona Mozley at the Nottingham shortlist readings event, which I attended last week (the other three shortlisted
"April come she willWhen streams are ripe and swelled with rainMay she will stayResting in my arms againJune she'll change her tuneIn restless walks she'll prowl the night" --April Come She Will lyrics by Paul Simon"It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times."Traveling back and forth through time, the past to the present, from Elisabeths childhood and meeting her new neighbor Daniel Gluck, to the brink of the political climate that began with Brexit, this story covers a lot of
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