Category:
Adults,
Art,
Historical FictionLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
British Literature QueerWritten by Ali Smith
Read by John Banks
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
How to Be Both is the dazzling novel by Ali Smith. It is long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive, and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. 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.
Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
Release date: 01-28-15