How to be both

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Synopsis

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion--and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice.

How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility.

Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions.

There's a Renaissance artist of the 1460s.

There's the child of a child of the 1960s.

Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real--and all life's givens get given a second chance.

Winner of the 2015 Women's Prize for Fiction

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Copyright:
2014

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781101870464
Related ISBNs:
9780375424106
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Ali Smith
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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