Gliff, Ali Smith
Gliff, Ali Smith
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Gliff

Author: Ali Smith

Narrator: Eliot Sumner

Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2025

Synopsis

From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world.  Add two children. And a horse. From a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse, Gliff explores how and why we endeavour to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data—something easily categorizable and predictable—Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever.

About Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of three collections of stories and three novels. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001 and her latest novel, The Accidental, won the 2006 Whitbread Novel Award. Ali reviews regularly for the Guardian, the Scotsman and the TLS.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on March 05, 2025

ali smith is always up to something weird (thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)......more

Goodreads review by Doug on April 13, 2025

Profound thank you thank you thank you to Netgalley and Knopf/Pantheon for the ARC! A new Ali Smith is always cause for celebration - and much like her compatriots Deborah Levy and Rachel Cusk, I always find her works challenging, intellectually dense, and often enigmatic (sometimes even inscrutably......more

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on January 08, 2025

Every Ali Smith is my favorite Ali Smith, and I still have a way to go in her oeuvre. GLIFF is a near future speculative novel, an imaginative mix of wordsmithing (word ”smith” ing) and dystopian, domestic drama. Home, family, abandonment, class shaming and system ostracization are potent and pervas......more

Goodreads review by Paul on September 14, 2024

What gliff means: a short moment. A momentary resemblance. A sudden or chance view. A transient glance. A sudden fright. A faint trace or suggestion. An inkling. A wink of sleep. A slight attack or touch of illness. A whiff. A puff. A sudden perceptible smell. A sudden passing sensation either of pai......more

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