How to Be Both |
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Author:
| Smith, Ali |
ISBN: | 978-0-241-14521-0 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2014 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $42.99 |
Book Description:
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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 humour 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...
More DescriptionPassionate, 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 humour 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. 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.