How to be both

- Authors
- Smith, Ali
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Tags
- contemporary , art
- ISBN
- 9780375424106
- Date
- 2014-12-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.11 MB
- Lang
- en
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.