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Original Title:	How to Be Both ASIN B00IPXLLO8
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2014), Costa Book Award for Novel (2014), Women's Prize for Fiction (2015), Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for UK Author of the Year (2014), Goldsmiths Prize (2014) Saltire Society Literary Award for Literary Book (2014), Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2015)

How to Be Both

Ali Smith

Kindle Edition | Pages: 376 pages

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Title	:	How to Be Both
Author	:	Ali Smith
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 376 pages
Published	:	September 4th 2014 by Penguin (first published August 28th 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. Art. Literary Fiction

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Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’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 discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice.

How to be both 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, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’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.

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.

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5* (I would give the first story 10* and the second 4*, but I liked the idea so much that I cannot lower the number of stars because of the second story)How can one review this book? It is original, surprising, ingenious. It talks about art and how the concept of art and life can switch places so easily. Is it possible then that all the people of this place are painters going about their world with the painting tools of their time? Art. In art, just like in life there are certain things that,

Playful and unique in structure - this novel is comprised of two stories which, depending on the copy of the book you are reading, could start with the story of George, a precocious teenager who has recently and suddenly lost her mother, OR the narrative of relatively unknown Italian renaissance painter, Francesco del Cossa. What is kind of brilliant about this little trick, is that each person's understanding of the stories will be slightly different, depending on which story they read first. I

How to be both contains two stories, one (Eyes) about a fifteenth-century artist, Francesco del Cossa, and one (Camera) about a modern-day teenage girl, George, designed to be read in whatever order the reader desires. The ebook edition I read had Eyes first (or you can skip to the middle and read Camera first, as the stories mirror each other, while the order of the sections is randomised in physical copies). I was pleased about this - Eyes may be a bit harder to get into, but it's

Revisited for the 2019 Mookse Madness tournament.The novel takes its inspiration from the fresco painted by the 15th Century artist Francesco del Cossa at the Ducal Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara known only for a letter he wrote to the Duke asking if he could be paid more than the other artists given his clearly superior work.The novel has two first person sections: one "Eye" narrated by the painter Francescho (in the book), and the other, "Camera", the tale of a 21st Century girl, George the

I tussled for two weeks with this challenging and disappointing novel from the Best and Most Innovative Scottish Novelist Alive. Split into two separate narratives connected via the novels bipolar concept, the first section is quintessential Smith with its precocious teenage protagonist and her tireless obsession with words (these recurring characters are sentimental love-affairs with ones formative time discovering language and its possibilities), while the second part is one of her riskiest

Ali Smiths playfully brilliant new novel makes me both excited and wary of recommending it. This gender-blending, genre-blurring story, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, bounces across centuries, tossing off profound reflections on art and grief, without getting tangled in its own postmodern wires. Its the sort of death-defying storytelling acrobatics that dont seem entirely possible How did she get here from there? but youve got to be willing to hang on.The games start even before

The Hand that Draws the HandAli Smith has produced the literary equivalent of that Escher print of a hand drawing the hand that is drawing it. In art terms, her novel would be a diptych: two panels of equal size, with different subjects, but intended to be seen side by side. In her case, two stories from different centuries that comment on each other, reflect each other, and (in that Escher twist) at times even write each other. The first half in my edition* is in the voice of a 15th-century