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Pure colour : a novel / Sheila Heti.

Heti, Sheila, 1976- (author.).

Summary:

From one of fiction's most innovative and influential voices, a heartbreaking, profound, and absurdly funny novel about being alive while the whole world is dying. The world is failing to remain a world. Its ice caps are melting. Its hot places are cooling. Species of flora and fauna are dying. People, too--all dying of different things. But what if the coming-apart world around us is only a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed? In this first draft of the world, a young woman named Mira leaves home and the doting father who raised her, to study art criticism. During these years of study she meets a woman named Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal--although to what, she doesn't know. Then Mira's father dies, and in the middle of Mira's unbearable grief his spirit passes into her. Together, they transform into a leaf, blissed-out and green on a great, old tree. But after a while, Mira finds photosynthesis boring and realizes that being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, she must remember the human world she's left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return. Pure Colour is a pure galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an unexpectedly funny handbook to being alive. In its pages, Sheila Heti proves that she is a philosopher of modern experience, one who is redefining the ideas, feelings and experiences that a book can hold.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781039000018
  • Physical Description: 216 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2023.
Subject: Grief > Fiction.
Art students > Fiction.
Fathers > Death > Fiction.
Soul > Fiction.
Transfiguration (Spiritualism) > Fiction.
End of the world > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Genre: Philosophical fiction.
Canadian fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sechelt/Gibsons. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Gibsons Public Library FIC HETI (Text) 30886001114657 Adult Fiction Hardcover Volume hold Available -

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