Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer.
In the present,Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past,a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family,but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common
Summer.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241973370Number of pages: 400Weight: 278 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'An astonishing finale to a prescient series...Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet.'-Evening Standard
'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour,a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely.'-Evening Standard
'This singular writer has found her moment.'-Prospect
'A maestra's portrait of her age...remarkable.'- The Guardian
'Few writers today can make a more compelling claim to singularity of innovation and sustained brilliance.'-TLS
'The bravura performance of a writer,poised at the edge of the day's vast darkness,gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer.'-The Washington Post
'Smith bring(s) this brilliant quartet to a satisfying close.'-NPR
'The final flourish of a mazy and beautiful quartet.'-The Telegraph
'Sublime.'-The Boston Globe
'Brilliant.'-The Scotsman
'The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note.'-The Sunday Times
'A remarkable experiment with timeliness in fiction.'- The Literary ReviewAli Smith
Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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