SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Financial Times
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali
Smith's novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind
literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and
discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again
to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice.
How to be bothis 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