How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalromancefresh & originalheavyrealisticintricateglossyemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipinjustice/tragedy/vengeancesolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeExpect an emotional, inventive novel, heavy rather than light. Best if you like surprises over comfort.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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5.0 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Ali Smith
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 378
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- Open Library
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