5/23/2023 0 Comments Daniel gluck ali smith![]() ![]() As he sleeps and dreams, he sometimes imagines himself dead. Struggling for the precise words to describe the essence of this imaginative, unconventional novel, I found a blurb from the London Guardian by Joanna Kavenna, which I could not improve upon:Īutumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams, and transient realities the endless sad fragility of mortal lives.Smith builds the story around the relationship between Daniel Gluck, a very old man, and Elisabeth Demand, a thirty-two year old woman–“a no-fixed-hours-casual-contract junior lecturer at a university in London.” Daniel Gluck is Dyingĭaniel is 101 years old and dying in an elder care facility outside of London. It’s her first literary novel in a series on time and how we experience it. ![]() I just finished reading Autumn by the Scottish author Ali Smith. A Literary Novel About the fragility of mortal lives This post was published on: 03/8/17 in the Book Reviews, Books category ![]()
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