Pure colour
(Book)
Finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
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 of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. 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 his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.
Notes
Heti, S. (2022). Pure colour. First edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Heti, Sheila, 1976-. 2022. Pure Colour. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Heti, Sheila, 1976-, Pure Colour. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Heti, Sheila. Pure Colour. First edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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