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Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. 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.
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How to be both, Ali Smith
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- How to be both
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ali Smith
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0141025204
- ISBN13
- 9780141025209
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Death, Literary Fiction, Novellas, Mourning, Searching for Oneself
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. 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.