Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive, and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith s novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about the versatility of art. Borrowing from painting s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it s a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation among 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, ...
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Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive, and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith s novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about the versatility of art. Borrowing from painting s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it s a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation among 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, structure gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real and all life s givens get a second chance. "
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Add this copy of How to Be Both to cart. $6.91, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Hamish Hamilton.
This book does not deserve the rapturous raves it has received. It was not a compelling read and all the mystery seemed just for the sake of being mysterious. My six person book club members ranged from hating it to lukewarm.
