In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA. This novel can be read in two ways and this book provides you with both. Who says stories reach everybody in the same order? 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. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion-and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else.
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