How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life by Sheila Heti (English) Paperback Bo

Description: How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create in a raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times "Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."--David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review "Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy."--San Francisco Chronicle Named a Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Flavorpill, The New Republic, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium--a compulsive read thats like "spending a day with your new best friend" (Bookforum) By turns loved and reviled upon its U.S. publication, Sheila Hetis "breakthrough novel" (Chris Kraus, Los Angeles Review of Books) is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one womans heart and mind. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part vivid exploration of the artistic and sexual impulse, How Should a Person Be? earned Heti comparisons to Henry Miller, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, and Flaubert, while shocking and exciting readers with its raw, urgent depiction of female friendship and of the shape of our lives now. Irreverent, brilliant, and completely original, Heti challenges, questions, frustrates, and entertains in equal measure. With urgency and candor she asks: What is the most noble way to love? What kind of person should you be? Author Biography Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction, including The Middle Stories and Ticknor; and an essay collection written with Misha Glouberman, The Chairs Are Where the People Go. Her writing has been translated into ten languages and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeneys, n+1, The Guardian, and other places. She works as interviews editor at The Believer magazine and lives in Toronto. Review "Hetis prose is dark and perceptive...[There is] a sense that she is drawing from a deep well, and that this will not be her last major book." --The New York Times (The New Vanguard: Remarkable Books by Women That Are Shaping the Way We Read and Write Fiction in the 21st Century) "Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of." --David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review "Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy." --San Francisco Chronicle "One of the bravest, strangest, most original novels Ive read this year." --Christopher Boucher, The Boston Globe "A vital and funny picture of the excitements and longueurs of trying to be a young creator in a free, late-capitalist Western city." --James Wood, The New Yorker "A book that risks everything...Complex, artfully messy, and hilarious." --Miranda July "A really amazing metafiction-meets-nonfiction novel." --Lena Dunham "It is easy to see why a book on the anxiety of celebrity has turned the author into one herself." --The Economist "A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity." --Margaret Atwood "Boldly original...Gorgeously rendered." --NPR "Bawdy, idiosyncratic...The title makes me quake with envy. All good books should be called just that." --Chad Harbach "A significant cultural artifact." --LA Review of Books "Original...hilarious...Part confessional, part play, part novel, and more--its one wild ride...Think HBOS Girls in book form." --Marie Claire "How Should a Person Be? teeters between youthful pretension and irony in ways that are as old as Flauberts Sentimental Education...but Ms. Heti manages to give Sheilas struggle a contemporary and particular feel...How Should a Person Be? reveals a talented young voice of a still inchoate generation." --Kay Hymowitz, The Wall Street Journal "I read this eccentric book in one sitting, amazed, disgusted, intrigued, sometimes titillated Ill admit to that, but always in awe of this new Toronto writer who seems to be channeling Henry Miller one minute and Joan Didion the next. Hetis book is pretty ugly fiction, accent on the pretty." --Alan Cheuse, NPRs All Things Considered "Hetis craft never fails...Novels are supposed to grab ones attention, and Hetis wonderfully baggy, honest and affecting book does exactly that." --New Orleans Times-Picayune "Not the kind of book that comes along often. Its highly quotable, funny, shocking, anxiety-inducing and, finally, inspiring... It is undeniably of the moment, a blueprint of how to be lost in the Internet Age." --Thought Catalog "Heti knows what shes doing--much of the pleasure of How Should a Person Be? comes from watching her control the norms shes subverting." --Michelle Dean, Slate "[A] breakthrough novel...Just as Mary McCarthys The Company She Keeps (written at the same age) was an explosive and thrilling rejoinder to the serious, male coming-of-age saga exemplified during her era by Sartres The Age of Reason, Hetis book exuberantly appropriates the same, otherwise tired genre to encompass female experience. How Should a Person Be?s deft, picaresque construction, which lightly-but-devastatingly parodies the mores of Torontos art scene, has more in common with Don Quixote than with Lena Dunhams HBO series "Girls" or the fatuous blogs and social media it will, due to its use of constructed reality, inevitably be compared with...Like [Kathy] Acker, [Heti] is a brilliant, original thinker and an engaging writer. " --Chris Kraus, LA Review of Books "If youre not already reading Sheila Hetis second novel How Should A Person Be?, you should be. Hetis rousing, unapologetically messy, beautifully written, insightful and provocative book explores the frustrations and rewards of female friendship, and of trying to make art as a young woman in the 21st century...Heti is doing something very exciting within the form of the novel." --Jezebel "Heti excels at developing a cast of engaging, colorful and flawed characters." --Willamette Week "Enlightening, profoundly intelligent, and charming to read....It reflects life in its incredible humor--and in some of its weird bits that might be muddled or unclear...with anxiety, hilarity and lots of great conversation." --Interview Magazine "There are no convenient epiphanies in Sheila Hetis newest book How Should a Person Be? Instead there are several intertwined, grinding and brilliantly uncomfortable ones that require the reader to shed a few dozen layers in the service of self-discovery...She may depart from broad harbors, but she is an analytic zealot, never imparting trite one-liners or excusing herself. Reading her is an act of participation, discomfort and joy." --SF Weekly "Lena Dunham loves this novel...A fresh spin on friendship, art, sex, and philosophy in five acts. And the prose, often taking the form of a numbered list, is always engaging." --Daily Candy "[Heti creates] one of the most personable antiheroes ever...Her tone can be earnest and eager to please, flippant and crass, terribly lucid and darkly funny...Her tortured self-deprecation can read a little like Violette Leducs, and her poetic bluntness sometimes reminds me of Eileen Myles, but these authors come to mind mostly because, like Heti, they have written about women with unusual detail and feeling. Heti truly has a startling voice all her own, and a fresh take on fiction and autobiographys overlap." --Bookforum "Oh crap. I dont know how to begin talking about Sheila Heti or how good she is. People will say How Should A Person Be? is reminiscent of Patti Smiths Just Kids or Ann Patchetts Truth & Beauty and both of these things will be true. But I am still reeling from the originality of this novel. There are passages here so striking, to read them is to be punched in the heart." --Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "The books form is fluid and unpredictable... [and] the architecture gives the prose a circular, easy feeling, even though Heti is taking a hard look at what makes life meaningful and how one doesnt end up loveless and lost. It is book peopled by twentysomethings but works easily as a manual for anyone who happens to have run into a spiritual wall." --Sasha Frere-Jones, The Paris Review "Utterly beguiling: blunt, charming, funny, and smart. Heti subtly weaves together ideas about sex, femininity and artistic ambition. Reading this genre-defying book was pure pleasure." --David Shields, author of Reality Hunger "[A]n unforgettable book: intellectually exacting, unsettling in its fragility, bodily as anything painted by Freud, experimental yet crafted as hell, and yes, very funny." --The National Post "Sheila Hetis novel-from-life, How Should a Person Be?, was published in Canada in 2010, but wont be out in the US until next June. Watch for it - its great." --Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding Review Quote Utterly beguiling: blunt, charming, funny, and smart. Heti subtly weaves together ideas about sex, femininity and artistic ambition. Reading this genre-defying book was pure pleasure. Details ISBN125003244X Author Sheila Heti Short Title HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE Language English ISBN-10 125003244X ISBN-13 9781250032447 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Birth 1976 Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-06-25 Subtitle A Novel from Life UK Release Date 2013-06-25 Pages 320 Audience General Publisher St Martins Press Imprint St Martins Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2013-06-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:52642507;

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