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Seasonal Quartet (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
Seasonal Quartet (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) | Ali Smith
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From the Man Booker Prize finalist: Seasonal Quartet is a series of four stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, which, when taken together, give us something more—all four united by the passing of time, the timing of narrative, and the endless familiarity yet renewal that the cycle of the seasons is. Grounded in current politics, in the work of artists Pauline Boty, Barbara Hepworth, Katherine Mansfield, and Loretta Mazzetti, and in Shakespeare's four final romances The Tempest, Cymbeline, Pericles, and A Winter's Tale, the Seasonal Quartet is "one of modern fiction's most elusive and most important undertakings" (Charles Finch, The Boston Globe).
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I‘ve been having trouble staying with a book these days. It‘s a tough time to work in public policy in the US and I‘m distracted. But, it was a gift to read the next book in Smith‘s seasonal quartet this week. She manages to write frankly about the terrible flaws of humanity while still infusing hope into the narrative. The focus on immigration in this one is so timely now, again.

mcctrish I saw Ali Smith‘s seasons at Blackwell‘s when I was in Scotland last summer and wanted to buy them but didn‘t and now I regret my choice 6d
sarahbarnes @mcctrish that would have been a cool place to get them! But at least you still can if you want. 😊 They‘re very good. 6d
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