How to be both: A novel

How to be both: A novel

<b>MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST<br>WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION<br>WINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE<br>WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD <br>WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD<br><br>A Best Book of the Year: NPR, <i>Financial Times</i><br></b><i><br></i>Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith€s novels are like nothing else.<i> </i>Borrowing from painting€s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, <i>How to be both</i> is a novel all about art€s versatility. 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.