{"product_id":"9780241973332","title":"Winter : 'Dazzling, luminous, evergreen’ Daily Telegraph","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Smith, Ali \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e194 x 148 x 21 | 242g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003e Winter? 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\u003e The world shrinks; the sap sinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 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\u003e It's the season that teaches us survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here comes Winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available to pre-order now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*****'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":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491332243842,"sku":"9780241973332","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780241973332.jpg?v=1753744420","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9780241973332","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}