What the community thinks
summary of 2153 ratings (see reviews)
Moods
reflective 83%
challenging 45%
emotional 38%
funny 33%
hopeful 23%
inspiring 22%
sad 14%
informative 11%
mysterious 8%
relaxing 8%
dark 4%
lighthearted 3%
adventurous 1%
tense 1%
challenging 45%
emotional 38%
funny 33%
hopeful 23%
inspiring 22%
sad 14%
informative 11%
mysterious 8%
relaxing 8%
dark 4%
lighthearted 3%
adventurous 1%
tense 1%
Pace
medium 46%
slow 40%
fast 12%
slow 40%
fast 12%
Plot- or character-driven?
Character: 77% | A mix: 19% | Plot: 3%Strong character development?
Yes: 45% | No: 30% | It's complicated: 22% | N/A: 2%Loveable characters?
Yes: 67% | It's complicated: 18% | No: 14%Diverse cast of characters?
No: 55% | Yes: 26% | It's complicated: 13% | N/A: 3%Flaws of characters a main focus?
Yes: 37% | It's complicated: 32% | No: 27% | N/A: 3%Average rating
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From the Man Booker–shortlisted and Baileys Prize–winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel—about aging, time, love, and stories themselves—that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal.
Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn 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.
Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn 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.
Buy Autumn
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Bookshop US
Other countries
Bookshop UK
Blackwell's
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From the Man Booker–shortlisted and Baileys Prize–winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel—about aging, time, love, and stories themselves—that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal.
Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn 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.
Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn 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.
What the community thinks
summary of 2153 ratings (see reviews)
Moods
reflective 83%
challenging 45%
emotional 38%
funny 33%
hopeful 23%
inspiring 22%
sad 14%
informative 11%
mysterious 8%
relaxing 8%
dark 4%
lighthearted 3%
adventurous 1%
tense 1%
challenging 45%
emotional 38%
funny 33%
hopeful 23%
inspiring 22%
sad 14%
informative 11%
mysterious 8%
relaxing 8%
dark 4%
lighthearted 3%
adventurous 1%
tense 1%
Pace
medium 46%
slow 40%
fast 12%
slow 40%
fast 12%
Plot- or character-driven?
Character: 77% | A mix: 19% | Plot: 3%Strong character development?
Yes: 45% | No: 30% | It's complicated: 22% | N/A: 2%Loveable characters?
Yes: 67% | It's complicated: 18% | No: 14%Diverse cast of characters?
No: 55% | Yes: 26% | It's complicated: 13% | N/A: 3%Flaws of characters a main focus?
Yes: 37% | It's complicated: 32% | No: 27% | N/A: 3%Average rating