Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book (nominee)
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Costa Book Awards Best Novel
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book
Saltire Literary Awards Best Novel (nominee)
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014
WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard
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.
*****
'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph
'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton
'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available to pre-order now.
Genre: Literary Fiction
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014
WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard
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.
*****
'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph
'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton
'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available to pre-order now.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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December 2014 : USA Hardback
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September 2014 : USA Hardback
Title: How to be Both
Author(s): Ali Smith
ISBN: 0-670-06875-6 / 978-0-670-06875-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Availability: Amazon CA
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October 2015 : USA Paperback
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May 2015 : UK Paperback
Title: How To Be Both (Large Print Edition)
Author(s): Ali Smith
ISBN: 1-4712-8793-9 / 978-1-4712-8793-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Availability: Amazon UK
August 2014 : UK Paperback
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