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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013
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Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?
Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close―sometimes too close―observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life.
Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?
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"Helen Fielding made it funny and fictional in Bridget Jones's Diary; Elizabeth Gilbert did it without laughs in Eat, Pray, Love. Now in this mashup of memoir, fiction, self-help and philosophy, Sheila Heti has added a bit of a story, quite a few blow jobs and some cheeky exclamation marks, and finally made it credible" (Guardian)
"A really amazing metafiction-meets-nonfiction novel" (Lena Dunham, star and creator of HBO series 'Girls')
"A beguiling "novel from life" about creativity and authenticity" (Guardian Pick of 2013)
"Funny, bawdy and fiercely original, this is the book everyone's talking about - and for good reason" (Easy Living)
"A shamelessly funny read that’s got all of America talking" (Grazia)
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"A really amazing metafiction-meets-nonfiction novel" (Lena Dunham, star and creator of HBO series 'Girls')
"A beguiling "novel from life" about creativity and authenticity" (Guardian Pick of 2013)
"Funny, bawdy and fiercely original, this is the book everyone's talking about - and for good reason" (Easy Living)
"A shamelessly funny read that’s got all of America talking" (Grazia)
A novel from life: a raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium
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- EditoreHarvill Secker
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1846557682
- ISBN 13 9781846557682
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine320
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