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How to be both
By Ali Smith
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By Ali Smith
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Do we make art or does art make us? Two characters connect across four centuries in this playful — and artful — story.
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.
"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" —The Los Angeles Review of Books
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversat...
"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" —The Los Angeles Review of Books
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversat...
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