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Foyles
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening StandardHow 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.*****'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
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TheBookPeople
Ali Smith's How to Be Both is the winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015, Goldsmiths Prize 2014, 2014 Costa Novel Award, the Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award, and was nominated for the Folio Prize 2015 and shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.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.A paperback edition of this highly acclaimed book!
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Blackwell
Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, this book features forms, times, truths and fictions. Winner Of The Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction 2015. Winner of The Inner Of The Goldsmiths Prize 2014.
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BookDepository
How to be Both : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141025209 : : 23 Apr 2015 : Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, this book features forms, times, truths and fictions.
- 0141025204
- 9780141025209
- Ali Smith
- 16 April 2015
- Penguin
- Paperback (Book)
- 384
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