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A review by marjolina
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
4.0
“Yes. A belief.
A belief was no doubt a companionable thing.
Sometimes just a tune. A song.
The words of a song.
The words of anything, a remembered line, even only half-remembered.”
From: Companion Piece by Ali Smith
So as most of you will know, this is the fifth part of Smith’s Seasonal “quartet” and it has her characteristic beautiful, observant and lyrical writing. It is sensational in its imaginativeness.
I don’t know anything like it.
The way she manages to artfully wield all these current topics, in this case the covid pandemic and the lockdowns, into a story like a collage - although this book has a much more straight structure than the Seasons - is brilliant. And, at times, laugh out loud funny too.
Her presentation of awkward conversations makes me laugh every single time and I WISH I could be as quick-witted as some of her protagonists. I am a sucker for her witty wordplay and the entire chapter on the origins and usage of the word “hello” was delightful.
So: I can’t recommend this book (and the entire series) enough and I will definitely re-read the entire quintet one day.
Or will it be a sextet?
I hope it will be. Feels like it could be
A belief was no doubt a companionable thing.
Sometimes just a tune. A song.
The words of a song.
The words of anything, a remembered line, even only half-remembered.”
From: Companion Piece by Ali Smith
So as most of you will know, this is the fifth part of Smith’s Seasonal “quartet” and it has her characteristic beautiful, observant and lyrical writing. It is sensational in its imaginativeness.
I don’t know anything like it.
The way she manages to artfully wield all these current topics, in this case the covid pandemic and the lockdowns, into a story like a collage - although this book has a much more straight structure than the Seasons - is brilliant. And, at times, laugh out loud funny too.
Her presentation of awkward conversations makes me laugh every single time and I WISH I could be as quick-witted as some of her protagonists. I am a sucker for her witty wordplay and the entire chapter on the origins and usage of the word “hello” was delightful.
So: I can’t recommend this book (and the entire series) enough and I will definitely re-read the entire quintet one day.
Or will it be a sextet?
I hope it will be. Feels like it could be