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Gliff
Smith, Ali, 1962-2024
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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.
Main title:
Gliff / by Ali Smith.
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Imprint:
U.K. : Hamish Hamilton, 2024.
Collation:
273 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780241665572 (hardback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
509626
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