Pure Colour: the new novel from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

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Sheila Heti

Pure Colour

the new novel from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

Sheila Heti

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Harvill
12 April 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Heartbreaking, exciting, profound- a short epic that reimagines what the novel can do

Heartbreaking, exciting, profound- a short epic that reimagines what the novel can do

After God created the heavens and the earth, he stood back to contemplate creation, like a painter standing back from the canvas. This is the moment we are living in - the moment of God standing back.

In this first draft of existence, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.

This is a book about the shape of a life, from beginning to end. It's about art, critics, and ageing. It's about the surrounding world - sky, trees, lakes, stars - and 'the world beyond this world', which can be glimpsed in rare moments when something shattering occurs.

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel- explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It's a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and its shape-shifting, mystical form allows us to take in the whole world in one glance. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

By: Sheila Heti
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9781787302815
ISBN 10: 1787302814
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 12 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the 'New Classics of the twenty-first century' and which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She was named one of the 'New Vanguard' by the New York Times book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose Motherhood as a best book of the year. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. She is the former interviews editor of The Believer magazine. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews for Pure Colour: the new novel from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

Exhilarating... it made me want to write -- Sally Rooney on HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? Complex, artfully messy and hilarious -- Miranda July on HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? Sheila Heti has broken new ground -- Rachel Cusk on MOTHERHOOD Courageous, necessary, visionary -- Elif Batuman on MOTHERHOOD Thrilling, very funny, and almost unbearably moving -- Garth Greenwell on MOTHERHOOD