Winter

Author: Ali Smith

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9780241973332
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : August 2018
  • : 19.99
  • : October 2018
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  • : books

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  • : Ali Smith
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780241973332
9780241973332

Description

Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths.It's December in Cornwall and Art's mother is seeing things. Art has problems too. His girlfriend has left so he's paying Lux, a young immigrant he found on the street, to impersonate her - but Lux has no intention of sticking to the script. And Iris, Art's prodigal aunt, septuagenarian CND-er and black sheep of the family, is about to arrive with a car full of food and a throat full of protest songs. Four people, strangers and family, in a fifteen-bedroom house for Christmas - will there be enough room for everyone?Wintercasts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, art, love and memory, protest and survival.