{"product_id":"spring-pb-w2","title":"Ali Smith: SPRING W2 [2020] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll four instalments of the quartet are available to buy and read in paperback and ebook now: \u003ci\u003eAutumn, Winter, Spring \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'H\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eer best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices . . . [Ali Smith] is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' \u003c\/b\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpring. The great connective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time.  In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time we're living in is changing nature.  Will it change the nature of story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHope springs eternal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Ali","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44253570629922,"sku":"9780241973356","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47621688590675,"sku":"XV80241973356","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":48110310130003,"sku":"XE80241973356","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/smith-ali-ali-smith-spring-w2-2020-paperback-55784094040403.jpg?v=1714836916","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/spring-pb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}