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Fiction, General Fiction

How to be Both

Ali Smith (author)

Paperback Published on: 16/04/2015

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6 reviews

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Synopsis

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 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.

Publisher information

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141025209
Number of pages: 384
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 28 mm
Weight: 270g
Languages: English

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A bit mixed but very good overall

Books which are written in an unconventional, experimental way are usually either brilliant or a load of unreadable nonsense. Frankly, I thought this had b... READ MORE

Sid Nuncius

Stunning, wise - one of Ali Smith's best

Ali Smith is one of the most lauded and garlanded British authors working today, and this novel shows her at the height of her powers. Divided in half, and... READ MORE

Jess, Bookseller Brighton

A novel of many layers

Ali Smith is one of our most skilful writers, and my copy of 'How to be Both' says on the cover that it has been long-listed for the Booker Prize; since th... READ MORE

Lorraine Douglas

An amazing book in an unusual format

Two stories, two points of view, two ways of looking at life in different times. This is a 2014 novel that has much to say about so many subjects, and famo... READ MORE

Sarah

A tale of two halves.

The first half of this book was pure joy to read, the second half was more challenging and I enjoyed it less, though as it went on I started to enjoy it mo... READ MORE

Kate S

For "advanced" readers!

This book has been nominated for countless awards and even won a couple so I decided I wanted to do a little research on it before embarking on the reading... READ MORE

Analogue Holly

How to be Both

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