{"product_id":"how-to-be-both","title":"How to be Both","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHow to be Both\u003c\/h1\u003eAli Smith\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003eApril 1 2015\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780141025209\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0141025204\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e***** \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Brims with palpable joy' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' \u003cb\u003eAlain de Botton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAli Smith's new novel, \u003ci\u003e Companion piece, \u003c\/i\u003eis available now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390896635949,"sku":"19300","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/how-to-be-both","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}