{"product_id":"how-to-be-both-ali-smith","title":"Ali Smith - How to be Both","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Sea Records","offers":[{"title":"Good: Ex-library","offer_id":52030948049208,"sku":"9780241145210","price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/5803\/3464\/files\/9780241145210.jpg?v=1775163687","url":"https:\/\/www.deadsearecords.co.uk\/products\/how-to-be-both-ali-smith","provider":"Dead Sea Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}