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Gliff

Author: Ali Smith  

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From the award-winning author of the groundbreaking Seasonal Quartet

The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith

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From the award-winning author of the groundbreaking Seasonal Quartet

The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith

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O brave new world, that has such people in't.

Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.

What does it mean?

It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world.

What would that actually be like?

In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?

And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?

Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature.

'As always, Ali’s inventiveness and intelligence lit fireworks in my mind. Gliff is an irresistible invitation to rethink and reword our way to a truly brave new world' Michelle de Kretser

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Fizzily fresh and vibrant . . . A dark vision brightened by the engaging craft of an inventive writer Kirkus (starred review)

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About the Author

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published
5th November 2024
Pages
288
ISBN
9780241665572

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