{"product_id":"how-to-be-both-a-novel","title":"How to be both: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cements Smith’s 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 Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to be both is 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. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44097938686015,"sku":"9780307275257","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/0619\/3727\/files\/9780307275257.jpg?v=1791844476","url":"https:\/\/curiositeabookshop.com\/products\/how-to-be-both-a-novel","provider":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}