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How to be Both (Hardback)

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Hardback 384 Pages
Published: 28/08/2014

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How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith.WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. 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. 'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241145210
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 526 g
Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 34 mm

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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 bits of both, but there was far more brilliance here. I enjoyed... More

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“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 published roughly so that half of readers will read one side... More

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“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 then, of course, it has made it on to the short list.... More

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