Declare Books Supposing How to Be Both
| 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) |
Ali Smith
Kindle Edition | Pages: 376 pages Rating: 3.65 | 17409 Users | 2259 Reviews
Present Out Of Books How to Be Both
| Title | : | How to Be Both |
| Author | : | Ali Smith |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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 |
Explanation In Favor Of Books How to Be Both
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.
Rating Out Of Books How to Be Both
Ratings: 3.65 From 17409 Users | 2259 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books How to Be Both
How to write a novel about art - everybodys doing it - without revealing the amount of research that has gone into it. Theres the twist.Research is important in a novel written in the twenty first century but partly set in Renaissance Italy. The author needs to comb the archives but burn her notes after reading. She needs to walk the old town shes writing about from one end to the other but then she needs to throw the guidebook away and leave with only her impressions, any hard facts should bePlayful 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
A new favorite. Innovative, original, and unforgettable. I'm confident in saying that I will reread this in the near future, because it was that darn good. Please do yourself a favor, and go pick this one up.
This wonderful, playful, beautifully written book contains two different stories. In one story, we meet George (short for Georgina), a teenage girl in present day London. George just lost her mother, and are having a difficult time handling the grief. In the other story, we leap 600 years back in time to meet Fransesco del Cossa, a renaissance painter. Fransesco is an actual, historical figure, and the paintings that are described in this book does exist. Very little is known about him though,
Occasionally infuriating and impenetrable but undoubtedly a masterpiece. This book floored me... but I would be lying if I said I enjoyed every minute of it. I'm having a particularly hard time arriving at a star rating because Ali Smith is a genius and I want to read everything she's ever written (this was my first time reading her), but I found this book inspired and frustrating in equal measure.How to Be Both is comprised of two halves - one of these follows Francescho, a female Renaissance
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
You could say the muse of this novel is Virginia Woolfs Orlando. The mischievous, time travelling, gender crossing spirit of history who breaks down boundaries, reconciles opposites, defies death. I read the Francesco narrative first. Francesco is based on the real life painter Francesco del Cossa (who I had never heard of). The fresco which features large in this novel is a stunning piece of oddball invention and even if Id hated this novel Id be grateful to Smith for introducing me to it:
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