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Ali Smith’s highly original literary double-take is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fiction.Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique, How To Be Both is a novel all about art’s versatility. 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, the structure gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life’s givens get given a second chance."The parallels between the two characters, and the possibility that Francescho is either some sort of guardian angel or a spirit who’s unconsciously been summoned, could seem contrived. But Smith’s deliberate obfuscation of what, exactly, is going on makes the novel feel less mawkish and more metaphysical. It’s like a mystery to be marvelled at rather than solved. Her writing is crisp and elegant throughout, elevating Francescho’s anachronistic observances of 21st-century life from predictably comic to poetic ... In How To Be Both, Smith manages the rare feat of conjuring up opaqueness and clarity. There are mysteries and unanswered questions but also hints that p

Who reads How to be both: A novel?

Author

Ali Smith, Ali Smith

Publisher

Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307275257

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.7 / 5 (1,369 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14