Ali smith how to be both review5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() We have a story of a teenager called George, who exists in contemporary England, and a story of an Italian Renaissance painter named Francesco del Cossa. ‘How To Be Both’ is composed of two stories, with the novel’s main selling point being that it can be read in two different ways. ![]() Well that’s just all fine and fabulous, but the problem is, I absolutely hated it (shock horror!) and I don’t know a single person who ‘genuinely’ liked the book. The book hailed the rebirth of stylistic originality, while Ali Smith has been described as ‘a literary genius’. ‘How To Be Both’ was marketed as a genre defining, a creative work of ‘literature’ that is bending all the rules, a novel of ultimate importance in the literary world. If there is one thing I learn from all the literary prizes and commendations received by Ali Smith’s novel ‘How To Be Both’, it is that we can so easily fall prey to the bells, whistles and buzz words of a good media campaign. ![]()
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