Spring /
Smith, Ali,
Spring / Ali Smith. - UK Penguin Random House 2020 - Paperback 336 pages ; - Seasonal quartet . - Smith, Ali, 1962- Seasonal quartet. .
Originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
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.
9780241973356 £8.99
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019664303 Uk
women literary, fiction,
823.92
Spring / Ali Smith. - UK Penguin Random House 2020 - Paperback 336 pages ; - Seasonal quartet . - Smith, Ali, 1962- Seasonal quartet. .
Originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
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.
9780241973356 £8.99
GBC001226 bnb
019664303 Uk
women literary, fiction,
823.92