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Gliff : a novel / Ali Smith.

Smith, Ali, 1962- (author.).

Summary:

"From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing. Gliff explores how and why we endeavor 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593701560
  • ISBN: 0593701569
  • Physical Description: 273 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2024]
Subject:
Children > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Disappeared persons > Fiction.
Totalitarianism > Fiction.
Technology and state > Fiction.
Electronic surveillance > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Xenophobia > Fiction.
Outcasts > Fiction.
Government, Resistance to > Fiction.
Human-animal relationships > Fiction.
Genre:
Dystopian fiction.

Available copies

  • 19 of 23 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 23 total copies.
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Marion Library FIC SMI (Text) 37810435830467 Adult Fiction Available -

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Summary: "From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing. Gliff explores how and why we endeavor 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"--