{"product_id":"how-to-be-both-9780307275257","title":"How to Be Both","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpring\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublic Library and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Both\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has been shortlisted four times for the Booker Prize. Most recently, she won the George Orwell Prize for Fiction for \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Inverness, Scotland, she lives in Cambridge, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50599916667154,"sku":"9780307275257","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d6e21a7-fd6d-4d6a-a3b0-54bcd3f2f783.jpg?v=1732207018","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-be-both-9780307275257","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}