How to be both / Ali Smith.
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TextPublication details: New York : Anchor Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015; �2014Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. Ed., October 2015Description: 315 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780307275257Subject(s): Artists -- Italy -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction | Art, Italian -- 15th century -- Fiction | Gender identity -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823/.914 LOC classification: PR6069.M4213 | H69 2015Summary: "Intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl...two characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Italy who assumes a dual identity, living as both a man and a woman. In the novel's other half, George, a contemporary English teenage girl, is in mourning after the death of her brilliant, rebellious mother. As she struggles to fill the void in her life, George finds her thoughts circling again and again around a whimsical trip she and her mother once made to Italy, to see a certain Renaissance fresco"--Provided by publisher.
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"Intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl...two characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Italy who assumes a dual identity, living as both a man and a woman. In the novel's other half, George, a contemporary English teenage girl, is in mourning after the death of her brilliant, rebellious mother. As she struggles to fill the void in her life, George finds her thoughts circling again and again around a whimsical trip she and her mother once made to Italy, to see a certain Renaissance fresco"--Provided by publisher.
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