Pure Colour

by Sheila Heti

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“True and newly alive.” —Los Angeles Times
“One-of-a-kind. . . . nothing less than vital.” —The Guardian

A new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

Named a most anticipated book of 2022 by The Globe and Mail
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Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.
    In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. 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 the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.
    Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
  • ISBN10 0735282455
  • ISBN13 9780735282452
  • Publish Date 15 February 2022
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Knopf Canada