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How To Be Both
Hardback Edition: 1
Due for publication 19 November 2014.
How to be Both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. 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.
Please Note: This book has a dual structure and can be read in two ways. There are two stories in the book and they can be read in either order.
Also available as: Trade paperback
Pages : 384
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton, UK
Publication date : 2014-09
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction