{"product_id":"how-to-be-both-a-novel-0307275256","title":"How to be both: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0307275256\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smith, Ali\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST  A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.\"Cements Smiths reputation as one of the finest and most innovative of our contemporary writers. By some divine alchemy, she is both funny and moving; she combines intellectual rigor with whimsy\" -The Los Angeles Review of BooksOne of the New York Timess 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyHow to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. Theres a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. Theres 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 lifes givens get given a second chance. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smiths novels are like nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197113561376,"sku":"NEW0307275256","price":9.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91J1oTLVAVL.jpg?v=1786960257","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/how-to-be-both-a-novel-0307275256","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}