How to Be Both by Ali Smith
The runner-up for the Man Booker Prize and one of the top sellers on the shortlist. 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.
Format: Paperback | 384 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.7 | 338g
Publication Date: 04 May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0141025204
ISBN13: 9780141025209
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.