
Spring
Author: Ali Smith
Series: Seasonal Quartet #3
Narrator: Juliette Burton
Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/30/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Synopsis
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.
“Bracing … [Spring] taps deeply into our contemporary unease. It’s always alive … Smith embeds her politics in interlocking plotlines that flow like waking dreams, in melodies and countermelodies … You never doubt you’re in the presence of a serious artist … ”—New York Times

