How to Be Both

Klappentext Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be Bothis 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.Please Note: This book has a dual structure and can be read in two ways. There are two stories in the book and they can be read in either order.

Product details

• Authors: Ali Smith
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780241146828
• ISBN: 978-0-241-14682-8
• No. of pages: 371
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 28 mm
• Series: HAMISH HAMILTON
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Schottische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)