How Should a Person Be?

Beschreibung

'It made me want to write' Sally Rooney<BR>'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood<BR>'A classic in the making' Stylist<BR><BR>Sheila's twenties were going to plan.<BR><BR>She got married.<BR>She hosted parties.<BR>A theatre asked her to write a play.<BR><BR>Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play.<BR>That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party.<BR>And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall.<BR><BR>So Sheila abandons her marriage and her play, befriends Margaux, a free and untortured painter, and begins sleeping with the dominating Israel, who's a genius at sex but not at art.

She throws herself into recording them and everyone around her, investigating how they live, desperate to know, as she wanders, How Should a Person Be? <BR><BR>Using transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.<BR><BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

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