{"product_id":"9780143192763","title":"How to be both","description":"\u003cb\u003eBOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Canada |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2015-06-23","offer_id":45881819463935,"sku":"9780143192763","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8fe48d72-7322-48d2-a7d1-30200afac059.jpg?v=1721177069","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780143192763","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}