by Ali Smith
I'd never read any Ali Smith, so on the strength of reviews of Autumn I bought "How to be Both" from a charity shop. Then Autumn was on offer at a bookshop so I bought that too. Ali Smith does not write conventional stories, if this small sample is typical, rather she writes about incidents that hap...
I really enjoyed this book. It took a few passages to get into Smith's style, but once I got it I was hooked. It took me no time at all to read it.The writing had a rhythm to it at times, almost like it was poetry. This often helped me figure out who was the subject of the particular passage. I real...
Dreams and memories float in and out of the main narrative concerning a woman who visits her older friend in a hospice. Both are dealing with post-Brexit Britain in humorous, cultured ways which may ultimately not be enough, funny as the novel is. Done in an experimental style that recalls BS Johnso...
Set in 2016 Post-Brexit vote Britain, "Autumn" revolves around the experiences of a young art historian and the old man who helped her learn to see and think when she was a child. The story moves up and down the timeline of both their lives and flips from strange, presumably allegorical, dream seque...
Set in 2016 Post-Brexit vote Britain, "Autumn" revolves around the experiences of a young art historian and the old man who helped her learn to see and think when she was a child. The story moves up and down the timeline of both their lives and flips from strange, presumably allegorical, dream seque...
Set in 2016 Post-Brexit vote Britain, "Autumn" revolves around the experiences of a young art historian and the old man who helped her learn to see and think when she was a child. The story moves up and down the timeline of both their lives and flips from strange, presumably allegorical, dream seque...
Autumn is a little crazy, but wholly beautiful. By a little crazy, I mean that to the average reader, it is a disjointed mess. By being beautiful, I mean that Smith has a way with weaving gorgeous prose. I haven't read enough Ali Smith to know if this is just her style—it is my third—but I'm beginni...
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