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Winter by Ali Smith
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The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be BothThe dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal QuartetSeasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn Autumn and How to be BothHow to be Both.
Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer’s leaves? Dead litter.
The world shrinks; the sap sinks.
But winter makes things visible. And if there’s ice, there’ll be fire.
In Ali Smith's WinterWinter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed SeasonalSeasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational AutumnAutumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.
It’s the season that teaches us survival.
Here comes WinterWinter.
Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer’s leaves? Dead litter.
The world shrinks; the sap sinks.
But winter makes things visible. And if there’s ice, there’ll be fire.
In Ali Smith's WinterWinter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed SeasonalSeasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational AutumnAutumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.
It’s the season that teaches us survival.
Here comes WinterWinter.
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3.5
“I’m getting more comfortable with Smith’s unusual style and starting to enjoy it more and more. I didn’t feel Winter hit as much as Autumn for me, emotionally. But I enjoyed all the characters and how vivid Smith makes them. It feels like never a word is wasted.”
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