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Publisher details
- Author
- Ali Smith
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Genres
- Fiction, Man Booker Prize For Fiction Shortlist 2014
- Released
- 28 August, 2014
How to be Both
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Synopsis
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 a 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.Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul.' Evening Standard'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense.' Alain de Botton'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph
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