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0141025204 
Hardback How to be both / Ali Smith.
Publication year: 2015
Media class: Hardback
Category: Fiction
Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2015.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780141025209 (pbk.) :
Available: 1
Number of reservations: 0
Description:
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.
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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
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0241973317 
Paperback 
Year: 2017.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Resource type: Physical
272 pages ; 20 cm
text
unmediated
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Grossly overrated.
27/02/18
0241973325
eBook
Year: 2017.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Resource type: Electronic material
1 online resource (272 pages)
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computer
online resource
024197335X
Paperback
Year: 2020.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Resource type: Physical
339 pages ; 20 cm
text
unmediated
volume
0241973368
eBook
Year: 2020.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Resource type: Electronic material
1 online resource (208 pages).
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computer
online resource
0241965616
eBook
Year: 2014.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton,
Resource type: Electronic material
1 online resource (320 pages)
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computer
online resource
Not an easy style of writing to read. It covers the style of a modern teenage girl who is coming to
01/09/17
0241974593
Hardback
Year: 2016.
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Short story
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Resource type: Physical
219 pages ; 20 cm
text
unmediated
volume
0241145406
Hardback
Year: 2012.
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton,
Resource type: Physical
202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
text
still image
unmediated
volume
1786892472
Paperback
Year: 2018.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate,
Resource type: Physical
164 pages ; 20 cm.
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unmediated
volume
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1846974666
Paperback
Year: 2018.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Polygon,
Resource type: Physical
56 pages ; 18 cm
text
unmediated
volume
0957152825
Hardback
Year: 2013.
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Short story
Publisher: Full Circle,
Resource type: Physical
128 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 19 cm
text
still image
unmediated
volume
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