How to be both
by Smith, Ali
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 gi…
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- Full title :How to be both / Ali Smith.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2014
- Edition:First Anchor books edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
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- Description:315 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780307275257, 0307275256
- oclc:on1016091862
- LC Classification:PR6069.M4213
- Dewey Decimal:823/.914
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