Sheila Heti
1) Motherhood
Author
Language
English
Description
In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti's intimate and urgent novel considers whether...
2) Pure colour
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be."--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An expansion of Sheila Heti's alphabetized diaries, which were excerpted as a newsletter in The New York Times"--
"Sheila Heti collection 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries."--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people, or how to even begin to try. A woman struggles to emerge from solitude and sadness into love, including sexual love: her guide on this journey is Ulisses, who (yes) leads her patiently into the fullness of life."--
10) Women in clothes
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day, and the answers from more than six hundred women"--From back cover.