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 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.
A NOTE TO THE READER:
Who says stories reach everybody in the same order?
This novel can be read in two ways and this book provides you with both.
In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA.
In the other half of printed editions the narrative CAMERA precedes EYES.
The narratives are exactly the same in both versions, just in a different order.
The books are intentionally printed in two different ways, so that readers can randomly have different experiences reading the same text. So, depending on which edition you happen to receive, the book will be: EYES, CAMERA, or CAMERA, EYES. Enjoy the adventure.
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我们是否可以同时是女人也是男人，同时是现在也是过去？ 在How to be both这本小说中，Ali Smith为我们讲述了这样一种可能性。 小说分为两个部分：Camera和Eye Camera讲述了21世纪伦敦，一个16岁，有着男性名字的女孩George。在她的非常嬉皮士的母亲去世后，她如何走出悲痛的故...
评分i never enjoy ali smith's style, her sentences, simple, short, some may consider it poetic, but i think her smug. however this time something occured and the opinion changed. it happened when i was in a subway, it's around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and t...
评分Playful And Serious? 'How To Be' Is Both December 6, 20146:28 AM ET Heller McAlpin Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smith's How To Be ...
评分Playful And Serious? 'How To Be' Is Both December 6, 20146:28 AM ET Heller McAlpin Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smith's How To Be ...
评分我们是否可以同时是女人也是男人，同时是现在也是过去？ 在How to be both这本小说中，Ali Smith为我们讲述了这样一种可能性。 小说分为两个部分：Camera和Eye Camera讲述了21世纪伦敦，一个16岁，有着男性名字的女孩George。在她的非常嬉皮士的母亲去世后，她如何走出悲痛的故...
用户评价
这个写法就是艺术...准备补一下Ali的（翻图书馆
评分诙谐、睿智、温暖（human），巨好看。越来越喜欢英国人对英语写作的革新。
评分诙谐、睿智、温暖（human），巨好看。越来越喜欢英国人对英语写作的革新。
评分好看！有趣！女权但不刻意。男女性别的模糊不清，过去和现在的时间线模糊不清，两个故事的界限也模糊不清，于是就不在是男/女，过去/现在，这样对立，而是how to be both。另外更喜欢女画家那个故事的写法。
评分古怪得迷人。第二部分真是越往后越好啊啊啊????
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