Pure Colour - Sheila Heti

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023**** WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL''S LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and moreWhat if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?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.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.''Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius.'' Avni Doshi''This one-of-a-kind novel... feels nothing less than vital.'' Observer''An original, a book that says something new for our difficult times.'' Anne Enright, Guardian''A treat.'' Stylist_______________________PRAISE FOR SHEILA HETI:''Exhilarating...it made me want to write'' Sally Rooney, on How Should a Person Be?''Sheila Heti has broken new ground'' Rachel Cusk, on Motherhood''Complex, artfully messy and hilarious'' Miranda July, on How Should a Person Be? ''Thrilling, very funny, and almost unbearably moving'' Garth Greenwell, on Motherhood''Courageous, necessary, visionary'' Elif Batuman, on Motherhoo
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