How Should a Person Be?
$33.65
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2023
Summary
An utterly cool and covetable new look for Sheila Heti’s genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium.
“It made me want to write” – Sally Rooney “A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity” – Margaret Atwood “A classic in the making” – Stylist
Sheila’s twenties were going to plan. She got married. She hosted parties. A theatre asked her to write a play.
Then she realised that she didn’t know how to write a play. That …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099583561 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099583569 |
| Author: | Sheila Heti |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Witty, unusual, raw…a powerful read…a classic in the making * Stylist *Original…hilarious... Part confessional, part play, part novel, and more-it’s one wild ride…Think HBO’S Girls in book form * Marie Claire *Amazing – Lena DunhamA shamelessly funny read * Grazia *Funny, bawdy and fiercely original * Easy Living *A sharp and unsentimental chronicle of what it is like to be a 20-something now * Economist *A book that risks everything… Complex, artfully messy, and hilarious – Miranda JulyUniquely honest, funny and clever… Heti is superbly truthful and shockingly funny - no words were minced in the making of this strange, brilliant book – Kate Saunders * The Times *Joyously self-conscious…profoundly ironic…or, perhaps more accurately, it is a production profoundly concerned with how to live authentically in a world saturated by irony – Olivia Laing * New Statesman *Utterly beguiling: blunt, charming, funny, and smart. Heti subtly weaves together ideas about sex, femininity and artistic ambition. Reading this genre-defying book was pure pleasure – David Shields, author of Reality Hunger
About The Author
Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Pure Colour, 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. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto and Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.
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