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How to Be BothHow to Be Both

How to Be Both

Ali Smith, Ali Smith

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About this book

This 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.

Details

Publisher
Penguin Canada
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9780143192770
OL Work ID
OL17063057W

Subjects

Teenage girlsFictionPaintersRenaissanceItalian ArtMothers and daughtersGender identityBiographyHistoryLiteraryHistoricalArtistsContemporary WomenRomance fictionLovePaintingFiction, historicalArtists, fiction

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