How to Be Both
by:
John Banks (author)
Ali Smith (author)
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014Costa Novel Award Winner 2014How to Be Both is a novel all about art's versatility. 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,...
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014Costa Novel Award Winner 2014How to Be Both is a novel all about art's versatility. 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.
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Format: Audible Audio Edition
ASIN: B00QJ1KWGG
Publish date: 2014-12-04
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Edition language: English
I love Ali Smith, but this one was a real slow starter for me. The second half is much more engaging than the first, at least it was for me.
"...and how to tell a story, but tell it more than one way at once, and tell another underneath it up-rising through the skin of it) –" This book is a complete and utter but strangely beautiful mess - at least structurally. But then there are different editions to this book and depending on which ...
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It's hard to put my finger on what makes this novel enjoyable. A contender for the Booker Prize, How to be both is, not surprisingly, a very literary read. The writing style is largely stream of consciousness, and though it is done well, this usually turns me off. The characters are well drawn, but ...
What a mesmerizing novel! At first, I found the writing style odd and difficult to follow, however the story itself was definitely redeeming. The version I got had Francesco's story first, and I enjoyed it so much more, the eeriness of the plot and the fragmentary style totally grabbed my attention ...
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