{"product_id":"9780241973332","title":"Winter","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 October 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Seasonal Quartet' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e194 x 148 x 21mm | 240g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world shrinks; the sap sinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the season that teaches us survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere comes Winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. *****'Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' Daily Telegraph'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope' Independent'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57548684951877,"sku":"9780241973332","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241973332.jpg?v=1774887336","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241973332","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}