![]() ![]() Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. 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. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. 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. Theres the child of a child of the 1960s. Theres a renaissance artist of the 1460s. Borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, its a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. How to be both is a novel all about arts versatility. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton ![]() 'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 ![]()
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