01431cam a2200289 i 4500 380373297 TxAuBib 20190508120000.0 190215s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019005846 9781101870778 25.95 110187077X 25.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Smith, Ali, 1962- Spring [BOOK] / Ali Smith. New York : Pantheon Books, [2019] 339 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Seasonal quartet "A novel"--Jacket. 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? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, 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. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal. 20190508. Seasons Fiction. Seasonal quartet.