03764cam a2200541 i 4500 349507803 TxAuBib 20180421120000.0 r 141120s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781101870464 electronic bk. 110187046X electronic bk. B00NDTV6P8 Amazon a6ffe054-fb28-4a8a-94bc-ab8232853c1b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 168753 168753 168753 1944579 OverDrive (Product ID) TLC TLC TLC rda TxAuBib rda Smith, Ali. How to be both [Bridges eBook] : a novel / Ali Smith. New York : Pantheon, [2014] 1 online resource. txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4194kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Electronic book. "The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl. How can one be both--near and far, past and present, male and female? In Ali Smith's new novel, two extraordinary characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Italy who assumes a duel identity, living as both a man and a woman. In the novel's other half, George, a contemporary English teenage girl, is in mourning after the death of her brilliant, rebellious mother. As she struggles to fill the void in her life, George finds her thoughts circling again and again around a whimsical trip she and her mother once made to Italy, to see a certain Renaissance fresco... These two stories call out to each other in surprising and deeply resonant ways to form a veritable literary double-take, bending the conventions of genre, storytelling, and our own preconceptions"-- Provided by publisher. "SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 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"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2014 Available via World Wide Web. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-03-03 20:00:02. Imported from MARC file. Artists Italy History 15th century Fiction. Art, Italian 15th century Fiction. Gender identity Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Contemporary Women. Historical fiction. Electronic books. OverDrive, Inc., distributor. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=A6FFE054-FB28-4A8A-94BC-AB8232853C1B https://samples.overdrive.com/how-to-be-a6ffe0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com