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How to be Both
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  • Published: 28 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241965610
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

How to be Both

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Paperback
4 May 2015
EBook
28 Aug 2014
Audiobook
11 Feb 2021
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The runner-up for the Man Booker Prize and one of the top sellers on the shortlist - now in paperback

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.

How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original 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.
  • Published: 28 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241965610
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith is a teacher and author, born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Ali’s life-long study of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness has served as the impetus for his pioneering work bringing trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness to underserved youth–and influencing education curriculum worldwide. He is the longtime Executive Director of the Holistic Life Foundation, a non-profit organization he co-founded in 2001 that brings yoga and mindfulness to schools and is the Co-Owner of The Involution Group, founded in 2019. Let Your Light Shine is his second book. Learn more at www.LetYourLightShineBook.com
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