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Winter

A Novel

Winter( )
Author: Smith, Ali
Series title:Seasonal Quartet Ser.
ISBN:978-0-241-20703-1
Publication Date:Nov 2017
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $29.99
Book Description:

From the peerless author of Autumn and How to be both -- the second novel in the Seasonal quartet 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. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical
Fiction / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.3 x 23.3 x 2.8 cm
Book Weight:0.436 Kilograms
Author Biography
Smith, Ali (Author)


Ali Smith was born in 1962 in Inverness. She is a Scottish writer. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD. She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Following this she became a full-time writer[4] and now writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman, and the Times Literary Supplement.

In 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to literature. Her short story colection includes: Free Love and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, and The First Person and Other Stories. Her novels include: Like, Hotel World, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, There But For The, and How to Be Both. She was short listed for the Folio Prize 2015. She won the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel How to be Both.

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