Pure Colour

Beschreibung

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023**<BR>** WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION**<BR><BR>Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more<BR><BR>What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?<BR><BR>In this first draft, 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.<BR><BR>Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling and a shape-shifting epic that is celestially bright and streaked with beauty.<BR><BR>'Beautiful and impossible to put down.

Sheila Heti is a genius.' Avni Doshi<BR><BR>'This one-of-a-kind novel... feels nothing less than vital.' Observer<BR><BR>'An original, a book that says something new for our difficult times.' Anne Enright, Guardian<BR><BR>'A treat.' Stylist<BR><BR><BR>_______________________<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR SHEILA HETI:<BR>'Exhilarating...it made me want to write' Sally Rooney, on How Should a Person Be?<BR>'Sheila Heti has broken new ground' Rachel Cusk, on Motherhood<BR>'Complex, artfully messy and hilarious' Miranda July, on How Should a Person Be? <BR>'Thrilling, very funny, and almost unbearably moving' Garth Greenwell, on Motherhood<BR>'Courageous, necessary, visionary' Elif Batuman, on Motherhood

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