How To Be Both

Author: Ali Smith

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780241146828
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Hamish Hamilton
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Weight (g) : 0.502
Publication date : 01 November 2014
Dimensions : 230mm X 152mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 29.99
Availability date : 01 September 2014
Out of print date : 01 June 2015
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Product Type : books

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Author : Ali Smith
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Bind : paperback
Edition : Airside edition
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823/.92
Reading Level : very good
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Pages : 384
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Description

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be Bothis 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.Please Note: This book has a dual structure and can be read in two ways. There are two stories in the book and they can be read in either order.

Awards

2014 Goldsmiths Prize. 2014 Man Booker Prize short list. Short-listed for the FOLIO PRIZE 2015. Shortlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.