Spring, Ali Smith
Spring, Ali Smith
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Spring

Author: Ali Smith

Narrator: Juliette Burton

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/30/2019


Synopsis

From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet—a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020

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

About Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of three collections of stories and three novels. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001 and her latest novel, The Accidental, won the 2006 Whitbread Novel Award. Ali reviews regularly for the Guardian, the Scotsman and the TLS.


Reviews

With Ali Smith's final volume "Summer" due this week - I hope (for those who want to read Summer without revisiting the first three) that this serves as a valuable resource: -------------------------------------------------------------------- The third of Ali’s Smith’s seasonal quartet after Autumn an......more

Goodreads review by Ilse

Ali Smith, wordsmith. Ali Smith, poet of hope. Ali Smith, magician. Ali smith, the great connective. 'The air lifts. It’s the scent of commencement, initiation, threshold. The air lets you know quite ceremonially that something has changed. Primroses. Deep in the ivy throw wide the arms of their leave......more

‘You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming,’ wrote Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and this inevitability blooms hope in our hearts as the world awakes in a lovely and lush rebirth of blossoms and warmth after the long, cold death of winter. It is a promise of light after dark, a......more

Goodreads review by emma

happy spring! i think ali smith is, or at least this quartet is, at its best when it's at its broadest, and when it gets bogged down in specific current events it loses its power and its poetry. this by and large didn't avoid that, but it did transcend it most of the time. also spring rules, so. bottom......more