SPRING - SEASONAL QUARTET 3
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet
'Luminous, generous, hope-filled . . .The third book in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet is her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices... Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' - Observer
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?
Spring. The great connective.
With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.
The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?
Hope springs eternal.
ALI SMITH
Ali Smith CBE FRSL born August 1962 in Inverness is a Scottish writer. She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that she never finished. She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with CFS ME. Following this she became a full-time writer and now writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman, and the Times Literary Supplement. Openly gay, she lives in Cambridge with her partner filmmaker Sarah Wood. In 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2009, she donated the short story Last previously published in the Manchester Review Online to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Fire' collection. Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to literature.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
SMITH ALI
Inverness, 1964 Tuvo una madre irlandesa, un padre inglés y una educación escocesa hasta que comenzó su doctorado en Newnham College, Cambridge .
A los veinte años, después de que un debilitante ataque de síndrome de fatiga crónica descarrilara su carrera académica, comenzó a escribir.
Ahora, autora de ocho novelas y seis colecciones de cuentos, crea lo que podría llamarse ficción experimental, pero con un estilo fácil, agradable y de emocionante lectura.
Escribe en The Guardian, The Scotsman y el Times Library Supplement.
