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How to be both

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Description for How to be both Paperback. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, this book features forms, times, truths and fictions. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 35. Weight in Grams: 270.

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014
WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD

'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141025209
SKU
9780141025209
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ali Smith
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives ... Read more

Reviews for How to be both
Dizzyingly good and so clever that it makes you want to dance
New Statesman
A delight. A masterpiece. Magical.
Sunday Times
I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul
Evening Standard
Exciting, full of joy and wryly funny... [Ali Smith is] one of the most inventive writers alive
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Goodreads reviews for How to be both


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