Présentation de l'éditeur
** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RENÉE ZELLWEGER, LOUIE ANDERSON AND OWEN TEAGUE **Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising sporting career - if he can untangle himself from his family drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel's mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur's. After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene's unexpected phone call to Arthur - a plea for help - that jostles them into action.
Revue de presse
A
stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale ... This is a
beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind. ―
O, The Oprah Magazine
Full of surprises and love and healing,
Heft is
the most unsentimental sentimental journey you will read this year. ―
The Times
Heft is written with a dry wit and the characters are hugely likeable … It’s
moving and tragic too. ―
Daily Mail
Nuanced and poignant… each of the three acutely written principals of Moore’s second novel
hooks the reader in a heartbeat.
Heft is an understated yet
intensely emotional work. ―
Financial Times
A gentle fiction, as big-hearted as it’s star is heavy. ―
Vogue
Biographie de l'auteur
Liz Moore is the author of the acclaimed novels
Heft, recently optioned as a feature film, and
The Unseen World, which was optioned for television. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia.
