Spring: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)

Spring: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)

<b>*** <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***</b><br><br>What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit,  the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?<br><br>Spring. The great connective.<br><br>With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on <i>Pericles, </i>one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door.<br><br>The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?<br><br>Hope springs eternal.