How to be both
Smith, Ali, 1962-2015
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This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make a 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.
Main title:
How to be both / Ali Smith.
Author:
Smith, Ali, 1962-, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2015.
Collation:
371 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
Awards:
Goldsmiths Prize 2014; 2014 Costa Novel of the Year Award; 2014 Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award
ISBN:
9780141025209 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.9'2G823.92AFF
LC class:
PR6069.M4213
Local class:
FICFT PbkFFT PBKAFPBK
Language:
English
BRN:
714259
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