{"product_id":"how-to-be-both","title":"How to Be Both","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ‚Ä¢ A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting‚Äôs fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cements Smith‚Äôs 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\" ‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äôs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There‚Äôs a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There‚Äôs 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‚Äîand all life‚Äôs givens get given a second chance. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith‚Äôs novels are like nothing else.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120352399645,"sku":"9780307275257","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780307275257.jpg?v=1751401898","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/how-to-be-both","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}