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Pure colour / Sheila Heti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 216 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374603946
  • 0374603944
Other title:
  • Pure color
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction HETI, SHEILA Available 33111010792907
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times , The New Yorker , Vulture , The Times Literary Supplement , and more

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

In this first draft of the world, 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 his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she's left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.

"A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"-- Provided by publisher.

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