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Sheila Heti

Teoksen How Should a Person Be? tekijä

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Tietoja tekijästä

Sheila Heti was born in Toronto, Canada in 1976. She studied playwriting at the National Theatre School and philosophy at the University of Toronto. Heti runs Trampoline Hall, a monthly lecture series, and writes regularly about the visual arts. Her title The Middle Stories was Shortlisted for the näytä lisää 2001 Upper Canada Writer's Craft Award. Heti was voted Best Emerging Writer in NOW magazine's Reader's Poll in 2001. In September 2010, Heti's book How Should a Person Be?, was published by Henry Holt in the United States in July 2012. It was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 100 Best Books of 2012 and by The New Yorker as one of the best books of the year. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

Tekijän teokset

How Should a Person Be? (2010) 762 kappaletta
Motherhood (2018) 380 kappaletta
Pure Colour (2022) 302 kappaletta
Women in Clothes (2014) — Toimittaja — 230 kappaletta
The Middle Stories (2001) 195 kappaletta
Ticknor (2005) 124 kappaletta
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018) — Toimittaja — 66 kappaletta
Alphabetical Diaries (2024) 41 kappaletta
A Garden of Creatures (2022) 20 kappaletta
We Need a Horse (2011) 20 kappaletta
All Our Happy Days Are Stupid (2015) 10 kappaletta
Two Free Men 3 kappaletta
The Middle Tales (2000) 2 kappaletta

Associated Works

xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013) — Avustaja — 274 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 28 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2008) — Avustaja — 169 kappaletta
Trans: A Memoir (2015) — Foreword & Afterword, eräät painokset165 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (2000) — Avustaja — 163 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 32: 2024 AD (2009) — Avustaja — 145 kappaletta
The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (1800) — Avustaja — 143 kappaletta
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 (2015) — Avustaja — 105 kappaletta
Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (2010) — Avustaja — 92 kappaletta
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 (2017) — Avustaja — 81 kappaletta
How Should One Read a Book? (1922) — Johdanto, eräät painokset64 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 50 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Avustaja — 53 kappaletta
Granta 145: Ghosts (2018) — Avustaja — 49 kappaletta
Granta 158: In the Family (2022) — Avustaja — 26 kappaletta
A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors (2015) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose (2016) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta

Merkitty avainsanalla

Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1976-12-25
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Canada
Asuinpaikat
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Gently and lovingly shows children the difficult concepts of death and grief through the animals in a garden. Wise words for adults, too. Beautiful, emotive illustrations.
 
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bookwren | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 4, 2024 |
This is probably the best book about death and grief for kids that I've read. Simple and straightforward without any religious references. I wish the characters had names, though. That's my only complaint. Names would establish a more emotional connection than just a generic cat or bunny.
I loved the artwork, even though it is dark at times, and strangely suitable for the mood and theme of the book. The last illustration is so beautiful.
I read it with my daughter and we both thought about it for a long time.… (lisätietoja)
 
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 4, 2024 |
With its elements of philosophy/self-help and fabulism it put me in mind of experiences reading Krishnamurti and Calvino. Although it’s doing something altogether different from those two in imagining the world as imbued with the spirit of God, a resacralizing of a world that increasingly looks to scientism to explain what it experiences. “Pure Colour” is a rejection of that, and a rejection of the idea that humans can fix what we find wrong here by our own actions.

“There was no asking anyone on earth, for we haven’t been created to know it,” Heti writes. We have been created to observe, and to love, with an intuition of what we are but that is all. “These lights spoke to our knowledge of another world, the world behind this world, the world of the spirit. Nobody was thinking it, but they knew it, nonetheless. Humans hadn’t lost what was most beautiful; our very small and tentative sense of the hidden, magnificent, divine.”

The novel is written in what often seems a child-like tone, it could remind me of the experience of one of my kids telling me an imaginative fable-like story. Sometimes you feel that they do go on a bit! But it also has passages of deep insight into human nature, interesting things to say on the different stages of life, and humor. “A person can waste their whole life, without even meaning to, all because another person has a really great face” was one of those lines that brought a chuckle.
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