WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014 WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD ‘I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul’ Evening Standard How to be Both is a novel about art’s inexhaustible versatility. Drawing on the fresco technique of Renaissance painting to create an original literary double-take, it is a genre-bending, fast-moving conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. A Renaissance artist of the 1460s and the child of a child of the 1960s: two tales of love and injustice that twist into a single thread, where time becomes timeless, structure becomes playful, fiction becomes real — and everything life takes for granted gets a second chance. ‘Brims with palpable joy’ Daily Telegraph ‘She’s a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense’ Alain de Botton ‘A delight. A masterpiece. Magical’ Sunday Times WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Ali Smith’s new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
ISBN 13: 9780141025209
Author: Ali Smith
