How to be Both - Hardcover

Smith, Ali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670068756 ISBN 13: 9780670068753

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2014

Synopsis

 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. 

About this title

About the Author

Ali Smith is the author of nine works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her story collections include Free Love and The Whole Story and Other Stories. Her most recent novel, There But For The, was named one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2011 and NPR's Five 2011 Books That Stay with You. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith now lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670068756
• ISBN 13: 9780670068753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384