How to be both
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
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Artists > Fiction. |
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Romance fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0670068756
- ISBN: 9780670068753
- Physical Description 371 pages : illustrations
- Publisher Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
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How to Be Both
 Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive, and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.  How to be both is a novel all about the versatility of art. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation among 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, structure gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real--and all life's "givens" get a second chance.Â