Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smiths novels are like nothing else. 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 lifes givens get given a second chance. Theres the child of a child of the 1960s. Theres a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. By some divine alchemy, she is both funny and moving she combines intellectual rigor with whimsy -The Los Angeles Review of Books How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. Cements Smiths reputation as one of the finest and most innovative of our contemporary writers. Book Synopsis MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - A novel all about arts versatility, borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take. 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 lifes givens get given a second chance-]cProvided by publisher. Borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, its a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions.
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