World Book Club - Ali Smith: How to Be Both
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A fast-moving, passionate, genre-bending work of art that both dazzles and entertains.
This month, World Book Club discusses the much garlanded novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith and her fans around the world. Still not able to gather together in a studio, presenter Harriett Gilbert and Ali Smith will be talking remotely to international listeners via all manner of means - phonelines, emails, Skype calls, and social media.
In this playfully ambitious novel, a 15th-century artist, Francesco del Cossa, travels through time and space to discover a grieving sixteen-year-old girl in contemporary England taking comfort in a painting he (or is it she?) created. Or is it all the other way around? And whose story comes first?
(Picture: Ali Smith. Photo credit: Sarah Wood.)
Published on Monday, 5th October 2020.
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