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 a 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. 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul.' Evening Standard 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense.' Alain de Botton
- ISBN:
- 9780241146828
- 9780241146828
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Publication Date:
- 28-08-2014
- Publisher:
- Penguin UK
- Edition:
- 1st Edition
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x155x29mm
- Weight:
- 0.5kg
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