{"product_id":"9780143197935","title":"Spring","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This is the most political book thus far in this earthy and humane series. Its heart is worn far out on its sleeve. It beats arrhythmically somewhere down near the knuckles. . . . Smith’s vision isn’t fundamentally pessimistic, however. There’s too much squirming life in her fiction, slashes of cleansing light for those who seek it.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eHer best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices.\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Man Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Both\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpring. The great connective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHope springs eternal.","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":49979274297701,"sku":"9780143197935","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_72efb9da-8600-47d1-a84b-2f77df07ddad.jpg?v=1759417670","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780143197935","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}