{"product_id":"how-should-a-person-be-sheila-heti","title":"How Should a Person Be? (Sheila Heti)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It made me want to write' Sally Rooney\u003cbr\u003e'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003e'A classic in the making' \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSheila's twenties were going to plan.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe got married.\u003cbr\u003eShe hosted parties.\u003cbr\u003eA theatre asked her to write a play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen she realised that she didn't know how to write a play.\u003cbr\u003eThat her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo Sheila abandons her marriage and her play, befriends Margaux, a free and untortured painter, and begins sleeping with the dominating Israel, who's a genius at sex but not at art. She throws herself into recording them and everyone around her, investigating how they live, desperate to know, as she wanders, \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSheila Heti \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of ten books, including the novels \u003ci\u003ePure Colour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMotherhood \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow Should a\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePerson Be?, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine deemed one of the 'New Classics' of the twenty-first century and which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto and Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 320 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65906046992733,"sku":"K045396583","price":12.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/4539658300001A.jpg?v=1789252111","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/how-should-a-person-be-sheila-heti","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}