How to be both: A novel

How to be both: A novel
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SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARDÂ
WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Financial Times

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smithâ‚¬s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussionâ‚¬"and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice.
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How to be bothÂ is a novel all about artâ‚¬s versatility. Borrowing from paintingâ‚¬s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, itâ‚¬s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. Thereâ‚¬s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. Thereâ‚¬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 realâ‚¬"and all lifeâ‚¬s givens get given a second chance.

A NOTE TO THE READER:
Who says stories reach everybody in the same order?
This novel can be read in two ways and this book provides you with both.
In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA.
In the other half of printed editions the narrative CAMERA precedes EYES.
The narratives are exactly the same in both versions, just in a different order.
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The books are intentionally printed in two different ways, so that readers can randomly have different experiences reading the same text. So, depending on which edition you happen to receive, the book will be: EYES, CAMERA, or CAMERA, EYES. Enjoy the adventure.
Country USA
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-12-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375424106

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-12-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375424106

How to be both: A novel

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