Motherhood by Sheila Heti (English) Paperback Book

Description: Motherhood by Sheila Heti **A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year 2018**A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be?Confronts the philosophical questions raised by childbearing and womanhood Sally RooneyMotherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim.Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Hetis narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice.In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how - and for whom - to live.Likely to become the defining literary work on the subject Guardian**A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year ** Author Biography Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the New Classics of the twenty-first century and which was longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction. She was named one of the New Vanguard by the New York Times book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose Motherhood as a best book of the year. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. She is the former interviews editor of The Believer magazine. She lives in Toronto. Review Likely to become the defining literary work on the subject. * Guardian *Probing, psychologically unafraid, witty. -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times *If you are an underliner, as I am, your pen may go dry . . . Indeed, Heti always seems to be drawing from a paranormally deep well. -- Dwight Garner * The New York Times *Brave and funny... Heti demonstrates the contradictions between freedom and the tyranny of choice and how impossible it is for anyone to ever make the right decision. -- Chris Kraus * The White Review Books of the Year *A brilliant, radical, and moving book, it is sure to cause the cultural riot her earlier work has . . . Theres a new quality to Hetis writing in Motherhood. The only way I can describe it is tenderness . . . Beautiful . . . Surprising. -- Claudia Dey * The Paris Review *Heti thinks clearly and originally -- Adam Kirsch * Times Literary Supplement, **Books of the Year** *Motherhood confronts the philosophical questions raised by childbearing and womanhood... Hetis narrator wants to create - specifically, to create something that will honour the memory of her mother and grandmother... Motherhood both documents that desire and fulfils it. -- Sally Rooney * London Review of Books *Motherhood is a poetic, innovative book. It is groundbreaking in its fluidity, in its recognition of the unrecognizability of desire, and in its scrutiny of expectation… she introduces a critical, exhilarating freedom. -- Rebecca Watson * Spectator *Motherhood is subtitled A Novel, though its one in which the boundaries between fiction and memoir are porous and constantly shifting… Heti is experimenting with literary form even as she wrestles with the form her adult life should take -- Stephanie Merritt * Guardian *Motherhood is a fiercely intelligent and probing read that delves deep into the fundamentals of procreating, motherhood and what it means to be a woman in todays world. -- Sarah Gilmartin * Irish Times *[Motherhood] embed[s] deeply philosophical questions into casual and familiar language… It is about the paralysis a person might feel when given the freedom to create, whether babies, books or oneself. -- Jo Lo Dico * Evening Standard *Motherhood is self-examination elevated to an art form… beautifully written and profound. -- Lucy McLuckie * The Scotsman *Illuminating . . . Intimate . . . Poignant. -- Alexandra Schwartz * The New Yorker *Engrossing . . . Heti approaches the subject with an observers curiosity. -- Molly Fischer * New York Magazine *This inquiry into the modern womans moral, social and psychological relationship to procreation is an illumination, a provocation, and a response - finally - to the new norms of femininity, formulated from the deepest reaches of female intellectual authority. It is unlike anything else Ive read. Sheila Heti has broken new ground, both in her maturity as an artist and in the possibilities of the female discourse itself. -- Rachel CuskIve never seen anyone write about the relationship between childlessness, writing, and mothers sadnesses the way Sheila Heti does. I know Motherhood is going to mean a lot to many different people - fully as much so as if it was a human that Sheila gave birth to - though in a different and in fact incommensurate way. Thats just one of many paradoxes that are not shied away from in this courageous, necessary, visionary book. -- Elif BatumanAn emotionally complex novel about motherhood that isnt about children. An intricately constructed book based on games of chance. This feels new. -- Jenny OffillReading this beautiful novel, I felt I was watching a brilliant mind invent new tools for thinking. Sheila Heti wrings revelation from the act of asking, again and again, in ever more challenging and innovative ways, impossible questions of existence. Motherhood is a thrilling, very funny, and almost unbearably moving book. -- Garth GreenwellI read this novel more quickly and eagerly than any Ive read in ages. Sheila Hetis simple, elegant sentences invariably give pleasure; her thinking is incisive and wholly original as she grapples with the kind of unhappiness that many of us, myself included, prefer to distract ourselves from rather than look at squarely. Reading Motherhood forced me to become a little more honest with myself. -- Adelle WaldmanHere it finally is. A book for all of you who are considering having a baby, who had a baby, who didnt have a baby, who didnt want a baby, who dont know what they want but the clock is ticking anyway. This topic is finally tackled as if it were the most important decision in your life. Because, um. How lucky are we that one of our foremost thinkers took this upon herself, for years, in real time, wrestling every day and living to tell. So fucking ready to live in the world this book will help make. Read and discuss, discuss, discuss. -- Miranda JulyWith each of her novels, Sheila Heti invents a new novel form. Motherhood is a riveting story of love and fate, a powerful inspiration to reflect, and a subtle depiction of the lives of contemporary women and men, by an exceptional artist in the prime of her powers. Motherhood constitutes its own genre within the many-faceted novel of ideas. Heti is like no one else. -- Mark GreifI think of Motherhood as a beautiful, natural, living thing - a rare tree in the car-filled parking lot of literature, offering aesthetic and sustainable pleasures while also bristling with multiple, helpful, compassionate functions in the world. The high stakes, complexity, intensity, playfulness, seriousness, and inter-dimensionality of Motherhoods synthesis of art and life, of the imagination and the universe, makes me excited about both life and literature. I recommend reading and rereading Motherhood. -- Tao LinMotherhood is a gesture towards honesty, bringing much that was dark into light. The book makes it more possible to think the decision, but also to dream, embody and feel it. -- Niki Seth-Smith * OpenDemocracy *A celebration of life, expressed poignantly through her prose - which is playful, funny, ultimately moving. -- Jacqueline Landey * Totally Dublin *[This] novel is astonishing -- Katy Thompsett * Refinery29, **Books of the Year** *I found it totally addictive and read it [Motherhood] in one go * Red *A thoughtful, frank novel... Intellectual yet conversational, its a meditation on responsibility and freedom, and the purpose of life itself. I found it extremely moving * Week * Promotional A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be? Review Text Earthy and philosophical and essential . . . Motherhood floats, as did Hetis excellent novel How Should a Person Be? , somewhere between fiction and nonfiction. It reads like an inspired monologue . . . Hetis semi-fiction, like that of writers like Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk and Teju Cole, among others, is dismantling our notions of what a novel should be . . . She deals out her ideas in no-nonsense form, as if she were pulling espresso shots . . . This book is endlessly quotable, and a perfect review would be nothing but quotations. She makes a banquet of her objections to parenthood. If you are an underliner, as I am, your pen may go dry . . . Indeed, Heti always seems to be drawing from a paranormally deep well . . . Funny . . . Cannily employed. Review Quote Earthy and philosophical and essential . . . Motherhood floats, as did Hetis excellent novel How Should a Person Be? , somewhere between fiction and nonfiction. It reads like an inspired monologue . . . Hetis semi-fiction, like that of writers like Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk and Teju Cole, among others, is dismantling our notions of what a novel should be . . . She deals out her ideas in no-nonsense form, as if she were pulling espresso shots . . . This book is endlessly quotable, and a perfect review would be nothing but quotations. She makes a banquet of her objections to parenthood. If you are an underliner, as I am, your pen may go dry . . . Indeed, Heti always seems to be drawing from a paranormally deep well . . . Funny . . . Cannily employed. Promotional "Headline" A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be? Details ISBN0099592843 Author Sheila Heti Year 2019 ISBN-10 0099592843 ISBN-13 9780099592846 Publication Date 2019-05-30 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 304 Imprint Vintage Publisher Vintage Publishing DEWEY 813.6 Language English UK Release Date 2019-05-30 AU Release Date 2019-05-30 NZ Release Date 2019-05-30 Narrator Simon Russell Beale Illustrator Win Mortimer Translator Susan Massotty Birth 1927 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9781448191239 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:124480587;

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