ISBN: 9780143192770

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 fr… Mehr…

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 realand all life`s ` givens` get a second chance. How to be Both: 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 realand all life`s ` givens` get a second chance., Penguin Canada<