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050 0 0 _aPR6069.M4213
_bH69 2014
082 0 _aFIC SMI
100 1 _aSmith, Ali
_d(, 1962-)
245 1 0 _aHow to be both
_c/ Ali Smith.
250 _aFirst United States edition.
260 _aNew York
_b: Pantheon Books
_c, 2014.
300 _a371 pages
_c; 22 cm
520 _aSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 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.
650 1 4 _aArtists
_z-Italy
_vFiction
650 1 4 _aArt, Italian
_vFiction
650 1 4 _aGender idenity
_v--Fiction
650 4 _aTeenage girls
_v--Fiction
655 1 4 _aHistorical fiction
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