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Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twenty-something 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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Sheila Heti is the author or coauthor of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. A former interviews editor at the Believer magazine, she has been published in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, the Paris Review, n+1, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Allyson Ryan's diverse talents have led to a career in voice-over, theater, TV, and films. She has narrated many audiobooks, among them On the Divinity of Second Chances by Kaya McLaren, for which Allyson received an AudioFile Earphones Award. She can be also be heard in commercials, animated shows, and video games.
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Allyson Ryan's diverse talents have led to a career in voice-over, theater, TV, and films. She has narrated many audiobooks, among them On the Divinity of Second Chances by Kaya McLaren, for which Allyson received an AudioFile Earphones Award. She can be also be heard in commercials, animated shows, and video games.
Heti truly has a startling voice all her own, and a fresh take on fiction and autobiography's overlap. Her mix of hyperreal detail, sweeping gestures from the realm of parable, and self-reflexive distortions leaves us wondering what's real and what's invented. — Johanna Fateman
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1846557542
- ISBN 13 9781846557545
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages306
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Heti, Sheila. How should a person be? First UK edition. London: Harvill Secker, 2013. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket with light tain to front. Grey boards with black lettering to spine. Binding strong and tight. 306pp., contents clean and bright. Sheila Heti (born 25 December 1976) is a Canadian writer. Heti's How Should a Person Be? was published in September 2010. She describes it as a work of constructed reality, based on recorded interviews with her friends, particularly the painter Margaux Williamson. It was published by Henry Holt in the United States in July 2012 in a slightly different edition (she has spoken in interviews about the edits she made), and the subtitle "A novel from life" was added. It was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 100 Best Books of 2012 and by James Wood of The New Yorker as one of the best books of the year. It was also included on year-end lists on Salon, The New Republic, The New York Observer, and more. In her 2007 interview with Dave Hickey for The Believer, she noted, "Increasingly I'm less interested in writing about fictional people, because it seems so tiresome to make up a fake person and put them through the paces of a fake story. I just I can't do it." RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1689195690189
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