0141025204 
Paperback How to be both /
Publication year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Genre: Magic realism (Literature)
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0141025204 9780141025209 (pbk.) : 0141025204 :
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Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make a 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.
Goldsmiths Prize 2014; 2014 Costa Novel of the Year Award; 2014 Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award
Extent: 371 pages ; 20 cm
Available: 3
Total number of loans: 24
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Joyful and artful. Having been told that either half can be read first I ended up reading the whole book twice. The two halves are not predictably interwoven and each perspective is plausible and uplifting. The book addresses parenting, loss, compassion and, indeed, how to be both. Recommended.
03/08/19