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How to Be Both

Ali Smith

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How to Be Both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015, the Goldsmiths Prize 2014, the Costa Novel Award 2014, and the Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award 2014, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. 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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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13
9780241965610
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Art and creativityTime and historyIdentity and genderGrief and lossDual narratives

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