How Should a Person Be?
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'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood
'A classic in the making' Stylist
Sheila's twenties were going to plan.
She got married.
She hosted parties.
A theatre asked her to write a play.
Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play.
That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party.
And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall.
So 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, How Should a Person Be?
Using transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
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Sheila ist Schriftstellerin in Toronto und schafft es nicht, das Theaterstück, an dem sie seit einiger Zeit schreibt, fertigzustellen. Sie verbringt Zeit mit ihrer Freudin Margaux, die Malerin ist, und anderen Künstlerfreunden, jobt in einem Friseursalon, besucht eine Freundin in New York und denkt über das Leben nach. So richtig viel passiert eigentlich nicht in diesem autofiktionalen Roman, aber trotzdem hat mir das Buch irgendwie gut gefallen, auch wenn ich manchmal dachte "Was lese ich hier gerade?" 😅 Nebenbei waren einigen Szenen ziemlich spicy, aber eher von der sprachlich derben Sorte.
Description
'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood
'A classic in the making' Stylist
Sheila's twenties were going to plan.
She got married.
She hosted parties.
A theatre asked her to write a play.
Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play.
That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party.
And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall.
So 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, How Should a Person Be?
Using transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
Book Information
Posts
Sheila ist Schriftstellerin in Toronto und schafft es nicht, das Theaterstück, an dem sie seit einiger Zeit schreibt, fertigzustellen. Sie verbringt Zeit mit ihrer Freudin Margaux, die Malerin ist, und anderen Künstlerfreunden, jobt in einem Friseursalon, besucht eine Freundin in New York und denkt über das Leben nach. So richtig viel passiert eigentlich nicht in diesem autofiktionalen Roman, aber trotzdem hat mir das Buch irgendwie gut gefallen, auch wenn ich manchmal dachte "Was lese ich hier gerade?" 😅 Nebenbei waren einigen Szenen ziemlich spicy, aber eher von der sprachlich derben Sorte.