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Writ book cover
Writ
2006
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4.50
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Writ is about youth, memory and love. Following an unexpected brief encounter, the narrator experiences a giddiness not felt since those excruciatingly awkward episodes that befall youth. When she then finds her fourteen year old self at the kitchen table, she revisits a past that she had abandoned after acquiring experience and maturity. With a dazzling linguistic style and witty cultural references, Smith arouses the reader’s own memory and imagination, recalling what it is like to be young, what it is like to grow up, what it is like to touch love. This edition of 200 copies, signed by the author, was designed, printed and bound by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press near Cambridge. The books were typeset by Speedspools of Edinburgh in 12pt Monotype Plantin Light and printed by letterpress on Zerkall mould-made paper. They were thread-sewn and limp bound with Colorplan paper wrappers. With 16 pages, the book measures 9 ½ by 6 ½ inches. The Festival's pressmark was designed and engraved on wood by Geraldine Waddington of Oundle.

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Author

Ali Smith
Ali Smith
Author · 27 books
Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.
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