Winter: A Novel by Ali Smith (English) Paperback Book

Description: Winter by Ali Smith From Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith, Winter is the second novel in her Seasonal Quartet. This much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn is one of the Best Books of the Year from the New York Public Library. "A stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history." —Time Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Arts mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Arts seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smiths shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography ALI SMITH was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962 and lives in Cambridge, England. She is the author of Autumn, How to be both, There but for the, Artful, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and other stories, The Whole Story and other stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and other stories. Hotel World and The Accidental were both short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was short-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Review "Brilliant. . . . The light inside this great novelists gorgeous snow globe is utterly original." —The New York Times Book Review"Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant. . . . Once again [she] has balanced darkness with light, bleakness with hope." —NPR"Virtuosic. . . . Smith gives us a potent, necessary source of sustenance that speaks directly to our age." —The Boston Globe "Moving. . . . You finish an Ali Smith book . . . certain that you have been in the presence of an artist who rarely sounds like anyone else." —The New Yorker "Winter is a triumph of imagination. . . . Luminous. . . . Fascinating." —The Atlantic "Brilliant, breathtakingly immediate. . . . While this seasonal quartet has its angry and agonized passages . . . its creator wants to remind us that the pendulum can swing back and that one day the sun will return." —Slate "There are few writers on the world stage who are producing fiction this offbeat and alluring." —The New York Times "Breathtaking. . . . [Smith] is one of the rarest creatures in the world: a really fearless novelist." —Chicago Tribune "Winter is a stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history. The outlook at the end is dark, but soon enough Spring will come, and then maybe the threatening icicles will thaw and the buds of hope will push through." —Time "The second in Smiths quartet of seasonal novels displays her mastery at weaving allusive magic into the tragicomedies of British people and politics. . . . A bleak, beautiful tale." —Vulture "Magnificent. . . . Stunningly original. . . . Ali Smith is writing a classic, one mind-blowing installment at a time." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Astonishingly fertile and free. . . . Dickensian in its fluency and mobile empathy. . . . [Smith] fashions a novel which, in its very inclusiveness, associative joy and unrestricted movement, proposes other kinds of vision. . . . Leaping, laughing, sad, generous and winter-wise, this is a thing of grace." —The Guardian "These novels seek to bring our time and deep time together. . . . If Ali Smiths four quartets in, and about, time do not endure to rank among the most original, consoling and inspiring of artistic responses to this mad and bitter mess of the present, then we will have plunged into an even bleaker midwinter than people often fear." —Financial Times "Luminously beautiful. . . . A novel of great ferocity, tenderness, righteous anger and generosity of spirit that you feel Dickens would have recognised. . . . There is forgiveness here, and song, and comic resolution of sorts, but the abiding image is of the tenacity of nature and light." —The Observer (London) "One of Britains most important novelists. . . . Winter is narrated with Smiths customary stylistic brio . . . punctuated with clever word play. . . . Heartwarming." —The Irish Times Review Quote "Brilliant. . . . The light inside this great novelists gorgeous snow globe is utterly original." -- The New York Times Book Review "Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant. . . . Once again [she] has balanced darkness with light, bleakness with hope." -- NPR "Virtuosic. . . . Smith gives us a potent, necessary source of sustenance that speaks directly to our age." -- The Boston Globe "Moving. . . . You finish an Ali Smith book . . . certain that you have been in the presence of an artist who rarely sounds like anyone else." -- The New Yorker " Winter is a triumph of imagination. . . . Luminous. . . . Fascinating." -- The Atlantic "Brilliant, breathtakingly immediate. . . . While this seasonal quartet has its angry and agonized passages . . . its creator wants to remind us that the pendulum can swing back and that one day the sun will return." -- Slate "There are few writers on the world stage who are producing fiction this offbeat and alluring." -- The New York Times "Breathtaking. . . . [Smith] is one of the rarest creatures in the world: a really fearless novelist." -- Chicago Tribune " Winter is a stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history. The outlook at the end is dark, but soon enough Spring will come, and then maybe the threatening icicles will thaw and the buds of hope will push through." -- Time "The second in Smiths quartet of seasonal novels displays her mastery at weaving allusive magic into the tragicomedies of British people and politics. . . . A bleak, beautiful tale." -- Vulture "Magnificent. . . . Stunningly original. . . . Ali Smith is writing a classic, one mind-blowing installment at a time." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Astonishingly fertile and free. . . . Dickensian in its fluency and mobile empathy. . . . [Smith] fashions a novel which, in its very inclusiveness, associative joy and unrestricted movement, proposes other kinds of vision. . . . Leaping, laughing, sad, generous and winter-wise, this is a thing of grace." -- The Guardian "These novels seek to bring our time and deep time together. . . . If Ali Smiths four quartets in, and about, time do not endure to rank among the most original, consoling and inspiring of artistic responses to this mad and bitter mess of the present, then we will have plunged into an even bleaker midwinter than people often fear." -- Financial Times "Luminously beautiful. . . . A novel of great ferocity, tenderness, righteous anger and generosity of spirit that you feel Dickens would have recognised. . . . There is forgiveness here, and song, and comic resolution of sorts, but the abiding image is of the tenacity of nature and light." -- The Observer (London) "One of Britains most important novelists. . . . Winter is narrated with Smiths customary stylistic brio . . . punctuated with clever word play. . . . Heartwarming." -- The Irish Times Excerpt from Book On a late summer day in 1981 two young women are standing outside a typical ironmongers on the high street of a southern English town. There is a sign above the door in the shape of a door key, on it the words KEYS CUT. Therell be a high smell of creosote, oil, paraffin, lawn treatment stuff. Therell be brushheads with handles, brushheads without handles, handles by themselves, for sale. What else? Rakes, spades, forks, a garden roller, a wall of stepladders, a tin bath full of bags of compost. Calor gas bottles, saucepans, frying pans, mopheads, charcoal, folding stools made of wood, a plastic bucket of plungers, stacked packs of sandpaper, sacks of sand in a wheelbarrow, metal doormats, axes, hammers, a camping stove or two, hessian carpet mats, stuff for curtains, stuff for curtain rails, stuff for screwing curtain rails to walls and pelmets, pliers, screwdrivers, bulbs, lamps, pails, pegs, laundry baskets. Saws, of all sizes. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME. But its the flowers, lobelia , alyssum , and the racks of the bright coloured seed packets the women will remember most when they talk about it afterwards. They say hello to the man behind the counter. They stand by the rolls of chains of different widths. They compare the price per yard. They calculate. One of them pulls a length of slim chain; it unrolls and clinks against itself, and the other stands in front of her pretending to look at something else while she passes the chain around her hips and measures it against herself. They look at each other and shrug. Theyve no idea how long or short. So they check how much money theyve got. Under Details ISBN1101969954 Author Ali Smith Short Title WINTER Pages 336 Language English ISBN-10 1101969954 ISBN-13 9781101969953 Format Paperback DEWEY 823.914 Series Seasonal Quartet Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-11-06 Subtitle A Novel Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2018-11-06 NZ Release Date 2018-11-06 US Release Date 2018-11-06 UK Release Date 2018-11-06 Place of Publication New York Publisher Random House USA Inc Imprint Anchor Books Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:119369424;

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