
Summer
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021
$21.25
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2021
Summary
The dazzling, unforgettable conclusion to Ali Smith’s tour de force, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet
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 chang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241973370 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241973376 |
| Author: | Ali Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Seasonal Quartet |
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Critics Review
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 * 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 * Telegraph *
Sublime * The Boston Globe *
Brilliant * The Scotsman *
About The Author
Ali Smith
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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