Glyph
First published 2025
Reception
- 2026
- 2026
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Catalytic Ghosts
In any story by the Scottish writer Ali Smith, you are likely to find a precocious young person who delivers a dose of naked truth, exposing the shams of contemporary mores and politics. You may also find a ghost. These figures often serve as catalysts. They shake other characters awake and chivy…
By Regina Marler
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Briefly Noted
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From a literary master, the much-anticipated follow-up to the highly celebrated novel Gliff. With Gliff she brought her remarkable talents for the first time to a work set in an uncertain future, a novel described by Vogue as “chilling…Orwellian…a vivid portrait of a decaying civilization.” And now with Glyph she gallops us back through history to tell a story hidden within the first, a story set in a moment of cultural revolution that examines in her trademark wit and intellect and compassion how we make meaning and how easily it can be lost forever if we don’t hold on to those essential qualities that make us human.
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Catalogue record
Penguin Books, 2025 · 240 pages
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, 2025
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-66561-9
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- Publisher
- Penguin Books, 2025
- Pages
- 240
- ISBNs
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- 978-0-241-66561-9
- 978-0-593-70158-4
- Editions
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- Penguin Books, 2025, 240 pages
- Penguin Books, 2025, 240 pages
- Author
- Smith, Ali, 1962–
- Statement
- Glyph / Ali Smith.
- Records
- Open Library Wikidata
- United Kingdom
- 2020s