How to be Both

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

The runner-up for the Man Booker Prize and one of the top sellers on the shortlist - now in paperback

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141025209
Published: April 2015

Number of pages: 384
Width: 126 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 30 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd