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How to Be Both is a 2014 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published by Hamish Hamilton. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 Folio Prize. It won the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize, the Novel Award in the 2014 Costa Book Awards and the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
- Ali Smith
- 2014
Sep 4, 2014 · How to Be Both is a genre-bending novel that explores art, love and injustice across time and space. It can be read in two ways, depending on the order of the narratives, and features a Renaissance artist and a child of the 1960s.
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Dec 31, 2014 · The two parts of “How to Be Both” have overlapping themes: the subversive power of art; what Martineau refers to as “sexual and gender ambiguities”; the hold of the dead on the living; and,...
- Christopher Benfey
Oct 13, 2015 · Both their mothers fed this tendency by never letting them accept the way things are at the surface: both girls have to look for what is beneath the surface. How to Be Both is poetic, philosophical and challenges its reader.
- Ali Smith
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"The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance...
Aug 28, 2014 · Written by Ali Smith. Ali Smith’s highly original literary double-take is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique, How to Be Both is a novel all about art’s versatility. There’s a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s.
[How to be both] cements Smith’s reputation as one of the finest and most innovative of our contemporary writers. By some divine alchemy, she is both funny and moving; she combines intellectual rigor with whimsy. . . .
- Ali Smith
