| Record Number |
717300 |
| ISBN |
9780241146828 (paperback) |
| 9780241145210 (hardback) |
| Author |
Smith, Ali, 1962- author. |
| Title |
How to be both / Ali Smith. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014 |
| ©2014. |
| Pagination etc. |
371 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
"Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014"--Cover. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Painting -- Fiction |
| Love -- Fiction |
| English fiction -- 21st century |
| Shelf Location |
F SMIT |
