How to Be Both - Ali Smith
Category: Art
Tags: Art, Historical Fiction, Adults
How to Be Both is the dazzling novel by Ali Smith. It is long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive, and scrupulously playful, Ali Smiths novels are like nothing else. How to Be Both is a novel all about arts versatility. Borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, its a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. Theres a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. Theres 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 lifes givens get given a second chance., Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins Release date: 01-28-15
