How to be Both - Ali Smith

How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 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. 'Smith can make anything happen which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph 'She's a genius genuinely modern in the heroic glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Artful There but for the Free Love Like Hotel World Other Stories and Other Stories The Whole Story and Other Stories The Accidental Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories.

TITLE: How to be Both

AUTHOR: Ali Smith

SKU: 9780241146828

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 28/08/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 384

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 154 mm x 234 mm x 29 mm

WEIGHT: 501 gr