How to be Both
How to be Both by Ali Smith is a novel published by Penguin Books in 2015, consisting of 371 pages. This work explores the versatility of art through a unique narrative structure that intertwines two distinct stories: one featuring a Renaissance artist from the 1460s and the other focusing on a child of the 1960s. The book presents a genre-bending dialogue that challenges conventional storytelling by blending various forms, times, and truths.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of themes surrounding love and injustice as the two narratives converge into a singular exploration of existence. The novel employs inventive techniques reminiscent of painting’s fresco style, allowing for a playful yet profound examination of life’s complexities. With its historical and literary elements, How to be Both invites readers to reconsider the boundaries of fiction and reality, offering a fresh perspective on the interplay between art and life.
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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.
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