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  • Published: 11 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241993002
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99

How to be Both





The runner-up for the Man Booker Prize and one of the top sellers on the shortlist - now in paperback

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.

  • Published: 11 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241993002
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99

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