Heft

Name: Heft
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Liz Moore
ISBN: 9780099558729

Liz Moore

28/03/2013
Windmill Books

NC (0 avis)

Résumé

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.