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How to Be Both

Pages
320
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

This novel explores the nature of art and identity through two distinct timelines. It features a Renaissance artist from the 1460s and a contemporary character from the 1960s. Their stories of love and injustice intertwine, blurring the lines between time, truth, and fiction.

About the author

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Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), wh...

Characters

All characters in How to Be Both