5/12/2023 0 Comments Daniel gluck ali smithThe main plot follows Grace and her teenage children Sacha and Robert who randomly meet Art and Charlotte from Winter and decide to accompany them on a journey to visit Daniel Gluck from Autumn. In Summer we meet new characters and are reunited with some from the previous seasonal novels. The book is quite fragmented, though less so than its predecessors, and though it borrows from literary classics, it’s an original Smith in terms of tone and dialogue. In these books we get the immediacy of our cultural present propped up by references to other books and art forms, which is on-brand for Ali Smith. Smith’s project begun in 2016, with Autumn, and since then she has published one book a year, tackling the mess we have all been going through or witnessing over the past few years: Brexit, xenophobia, misogyny, climate change, Coronavirus and more. Ali Smith, Summer (Hamish Hamilton: 2020, 9780241207062)Īnd so Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet comes to an end.
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