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How to be Both

by Ali Smith
How to be Both - Thryft
How to be Both - Thryft

Versatile novel on art, time & life.

How to be Both explores the art and its versatility in a unique manner, blending two tales of different times. It has been praised for its ability to bend genres and keep readers constantly engaged. Recommended for those who appreciate novels that push boundaries and experiment with form.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Costa Book Award for Novel (2014)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction (2015)
  • Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for UK Author of the Year (2014)
  • Goldsmiths Prize (2014)
  • Saltire Society Literary Award for Literary Book (2014)
  • Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

How to be Both

by Ali Smith
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ISBN: 9780241146828
Authors: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2014-08-28
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: LGBT, Queer
Goodreads rating: 3.66
(rated by 23675 readers)

Description

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.
 

Versatile novel on art, time & life.

How to be Both explores the art and its versatility in a unique manner, blending two tales of different times. It has been praised for its ability to bend genres and keep readers constantly engaged. Recommended for those who appreciate novels that push boundaries and experiment with form.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Costa Book Award for Novel (2014)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction (2015)
  • Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for UK Author of the Year (2014)
  • Goldsmiths Prize (2014)
  • Saltire Society Literary Award for Literary Book (2014)
  • Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.