How to be both / Ali Smith.
Publication details: London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014.Description: 371 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780241146828 (paperback)
- 9780241145210 (hardback)
- 823.92 23
- PR6069.M4213 H69 2014
- Winner 2014 Costa Novel Award. Man Booker Prize, Longlisted 2014.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | SMI | Available | 058228 |
"Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014"--Cover.
Passionate, 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.
Winner 2014 Costa Novel Award.
Man Booker Prize, Longlisted 2014.
