“Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? - TopicsExpress



          

“Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smiths How To Be Both, which recently won the prestigious, all-Brit two-year-old Goldsmiths prize for being a truly novel novel, is all of the above—and then some. . . . To say that theres more than meets the eye in this terrific book is a gross understatement; it encompasses wonderful mothers, unconventional love and friendship, time, mortality, gender, the consolations of art and so much else. . . . Once again, Smiths affinity for beguiling oddballs and the pertly precocious rivals J.D Salingers. . . . [A] gloriously inventive novel.” —Heller McAlpin, NPR
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:20:56 +0000

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