How to be both
Smith, Ali, 1962-2014
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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.
Main title:
How to be both / Ali Smith.
Author:
Smith, Ali, 1962-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014©2014.
Collation:
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction ; 2015Costa Book Awards ; 2014
Notes:
"Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014"--Cover.
ISBN:
9780241145210 (hardback)9780241146828 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
49288