How to Be Both

By Ali Smith

Book Overview

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.

"Cements Smith's reputation as one of the finest and most innovative of our contemporary writers. By some divine alchemy, she is both funny and moving; she combines intellectual rigor with whimsy" --The Los Angeles Review of Books

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

How to be both is 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. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307275256
• ISBN13: 9780307275257
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"