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Winter
Seasonal Quartet (Related to this series)
- Author
- Ali Smith
- Narrator
- Melody Grove
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 9 January 2018
- Run Time
- 7 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes.
And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself.
When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?
Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.
“A stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history.”—Time
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Details
- Author
- Ali Smith
- Narrator
- Melody Grove
- Duration
- 7 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 January 2018
- ISBN
- 9781501971099
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
From Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith, Winter is the second novel in her Seasonal Quartet. This much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn is one of the Best Books of the Year from the New York Public Library. Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.“A stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history.”—Time
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