Pure Colour

** 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 Motherhood

** 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 more

What 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


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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 Motherhood

• | Author: Sheila Heti
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Feb 23, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781529114539
• | ISBN-10: 1529114535