How to be both

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<p><b>WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD<br>AN <i>OBSERVER </i>BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR</b></p><p>'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' <b><i>Evening Standard</i></b></p><p><i>How to be both</i> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>*****</p><p>'Brims with palpable joy' <b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p><p>'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' <b>Alain de Botton</b></p><p>'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b></p><p><b>WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014</b></p><p><b>Ali Smith's new novel,<i> Companion piece, </i>is available now.</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141025209

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)