{"product_id":"9780143197898","title":"Autumn","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the 2015 Baileys Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Both\u003c\/i\u003e: An unconventional love story playing across the boundaries of time and history. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art—via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery—\u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means. \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e is part of the quartet \u003ci\u003eSeasonal\u003c\/i\u003e: four stand-alone novels, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":49979274264933,"sku":"9780143197898","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8ecd7e21-aeb3-488e-9f25-5457550b3b9c.jpg?v=1759417670","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780143197898","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}