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Books by Sheila Heti






The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018(Illustrated)
(The Best American Series )
by Sheila Heti, 826 National, Clara Sankey, Mariner Books
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Best American Paper
ISBN-13: 978-1-328-46581-8, ISBN: 1-328-46581-0

"Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year’s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection."






The Chairs Are Where the People Go(1st Edition)
How to Live, Work, and Play in the City
by Misha Glouberman, Sheila Heti
Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 2011 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-945-6, ISBN: 0-86547-945-3

"A funny, offbeat, thought-provoking guide to working and playing in cities that offers unexpected insights on how a person should beWhy shouldn’t neighborhoods change? Why is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing you’re against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why should making the city more fun for you and your friends be a super-noble political goal? Why does a computer last on ..."






Motherhood
(Thorndike Press Large Print Women's Fiction)
by Sheila Heti
Published 2019 by Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-5888-9, ISBN: 1-4328-5888-2






The Middle Stories(Large type / Large print)
by Sheila Heti
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2013 by Readhowyouwant
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-6464-7, ISBN: 1-4596-6464-7

"Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti's completely original stories lead you to surprising places. Globe and Mail critic Russell Smith has described Heti's stories as cryptic fairy tales without morals at the end, but really the morals are in the quality of the telling and in the details disclosed along the way. Look where you weren't going to look, think what you wouldn't have thought, Heti seems to say, and m ..."






Ticknor
A Novel - SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Sheila Heti
Hardcover, Published 2006 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27754-3, ISBN: 0-374-27754-0






Always Apprentices(Updated)
The Believer magazine Presents Twenty-Two Conversations Between Writers
by Sheila Heti, Ross Simonini, Vendela Vida, Believer Books Mcsweeney's
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Mcsweeney's, Believer Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-938073-25-0, ISBN: 1-938073-25-8

"Always Apprentices collects five years of intimate, wide-ranging conversations with many of today’s most prominent writers, taken from the pages of the Believer. The participants don’t limit themselves to issues of writing and craft, but instead offer unfettered exchanges on a wide range of topics—from what it means to be a consumer to whether or not to kill a deer, from how we get to know each other to walking while inebriated. The int ..."






How Should a Person Be?
by Sheila Heti
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958356-1, ISBN: 0-09-958356-9

"This title was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. 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 ..."






The Middle Stories(2nd Edition)
by Sheila Heti
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2012 by Mcsweeney's
ISBN-13: 978-1-936365-90-6, ISBN: 1-936365-90-1

"Wildly acclaimed in Canada, this book marks the debut of a remarkable young writer first published by McSweeney's when she was twenty-three and living at home with her dad and brother. The Middle Stories is a strikingly original collection of stories, fables, and short brutalities that are alternately heartwarming, cruel, and hilarious.This edition, marking the 10th anniversary of The Middle Stories, will be designed in the newly iconic ..."






n+1, Number Ten
Self-Improvement
by N. 1., Marco Roth, Nikil Saval, Mark Greif, Benjamin Kunkel, Keith Gessen, Sheila Heti, Mathias Enard, Kristen Dombek, Siddhartha Deb, Daniel Albert, Richard Beck, Elizabeth Gumport, Bruce Robbins
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by N+1 Foundation
ISBN-13: 978-0-9825977-2-9, ISBN: 0-9825977-2-X

"n+1 is published three times a year by n+1 Foundation, Inc., 68 Jay St. #405, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Single issues are available for $13.95. Subscriptions for $30 (three issues); in Canada, $36; other international, $50. Subscriptions and correspondence to the Editors, 68 Jay St. #405, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please correspond before submitting. n+1 is distributed by Ingram, Ubiquity, Armadillo, and Disti ..."






Ticknor(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Sheila Heti
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42663-7, ISBN: 0-312-42663-1

"On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands, and a lifetime of guilt and insecurity weighing upon his soul, he sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party--a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendsh ..."






Pure Colour
by Sheila Heti
Hardcover, Published 2022 by Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-78730-280-8, ISBN: 1-78730-280-6






Motherhood
by Sheila Heti
Published 2018 by Random House Uk Ltd Mai 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-837-5, ISBN: 1-84655-837-9






How should a person be
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by Sheila Heti
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Harvill Secker
ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-754-5, ISBN: 1-84655-754-2

"Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life. Using t ..."






Crowd(2nd Edition)
Issue Four, Number Two (Volume 4, Number 2)
by Elizabeth Robinson, Peter Richards, Matthea Harvey, Rebecca Curtis, Sheila Heti, Ed Park, Medbh Mcguckian, Timothy Donnelly, Stefania Heim, Matthew Rohrer
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2004 by Crowd Magazine
ISBN-13: 978-0-9713348-2-3, ISBN: 0-9713348-2-X






The Middle Stories(1st Edition)
by Sheila Heti
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2004 by House Of Anansi Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-88784-174-3, ISBN: 0-88784-174-0

"Part Dorothy Parker, part José Saramago, with shades of George Orwell, Sheila Heti has arrived on Canada's literary scene a fully formed artist. Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, each story in The Middle Stories leads us to surprising places. A frog doles out sage advice to a plumber infatuated with a princess, a boy falls hopelessly in love with a monkey, and a man with a hat keeps apocalyptic thoughts at bay by resol ..."






Motherhood(Reprint)
A Novel
by Sheila Heti
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-21478-2, ISBN: 1-250-21478-5

"From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”―Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children.In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international a ..."






Trans(Reprint)
A Memoir
by Juliet Jacques, Sheila Heti
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-167-5, ISBN: 1-78478-167-3

"Moving memoir and insightful examination of transgender politics “Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation.”In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a ..."






Lelawala
a Legend of the Maid of the Mist, the Heroine from the Niagara Peninsula : an Old Indian Legend as Told and Illustrated with Freehand Scissor Cuttings
by Lini R. Grol, Steve Earle, Sheila Heti
Paperback, 42 Pages, Published 1978 by Trillium Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-919968-16-5, ISBN: 0-919968-16-3






Motherhood(Reprint)
A Novel
by Sheila Heti
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-03244-7, ISBN: 1-250-03244-X

"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 ChronicleNamed a Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The ..."






Pure Colour
by Sheila Heti
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2022 by Knopf Canada Feb 2022
ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-8245-2, ISBN: 0-7352-8245-5

"Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she's left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return. Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty."



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