7/6/2023 0 Comments Ali smith how to be bothIn the novel's other half, George, a contemporary English teenage girl, is in mourning after the death of her brilliant, rebellious mother. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Italy who assumes a duel identity, living as both a man and a woman. How can one be both-near and far, past and present, male and female? In Ali Smith's new novel, two extraordinary characters inhabit the spaces between categories. "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 painter and a modern teenage girl. 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". There's the child of a child of the 1960s. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. 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. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. "SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.
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