How to be both / (Record no. 33036)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780241145210 (hbk.)
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ISBN 9780241146828 (Trade Paperback)
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.914
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Personal name Smith, Ali,
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Title How to be both /
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Number of Pages 371 pages ;
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 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"--
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Summary, etc "The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl. How can one be both--near and far, past and present, male and female? In Ali Smith's new novel, two extraordinary characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Italy who assumes a duel identity, living as both a man and a woman. In the novel's other half, George, a contemporary English teenage girl, is in mourning after the death of her brilliant, rebellious mother. As she struggles to fill the void in her life, George finds her thoughts circling again and again around a whimsical trip she and her mother once made to Italy, to see a certain Renaissance fresco... These two stories call out to each other in surprising and deeply resonant ways to form a veritable literary double-take, bending the conventions of genre, storytelling, and our own preconceptions"--
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Topical Term Artists
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Topical Term Art, Italian
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Topical Term Gender identity
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Topical Term Teenage girls
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Topical Term Literature
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Koha item type BK
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Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Stack Kannur University Central Library Kannur University Central Library Stack 18/06/2015 599.00 823.914 SMI/H 39408 BK

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