How to Be Both

Ali Smith

earliest edition we have, 2014 Hamish Hamilton, 2014 371 pages

Clipper -- LP3487

This 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, know...

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Editions we hold

Beides sein hardcover · 2016 · Luchterhand Literaturverlag · 9783630874951
How to Be Both edition · 2015 · Penguin Books, Limited · 384 pages · 9780141025209
Het een als het ander edition · 2015 · Uitgeverij Atlas Contact · 9789025444853
How to Be Both paperback · 2015 · Anchor · 336 pages · 9780307275257
How to be both edition · 2015 · 372 pages · 9781471287930
How to Be Both edition · 2014 · Hamish Hamilton · 9780143192763
How to be both hardcover · 2014 · Pantheon · 384 pages · 9780375424106
How to be both edition · 2014 · Hamish Hamilton · 371 pages · 9780670068753
How to Be Both hardcover · 2014 · Hamish Hamilton · 384 pages · 9780241145210
How to Be Both ebook · 2014 · Penguin Books · 320 pages · 9780241965610
How to Be Both paperback · 2014 · Hamish Hamilton · 384 pages · 9780241146828

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