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How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
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This 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.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- First published
- 2014
Available formats
- Print — 384 pages · ISBN 9780141025209
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