Heft - Softcover

Moore, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099558726 ISBN 13: 9780099558729

Publisher: Windmill Books, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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)

Book Description:

An unforgettable novel about finding love in the most unexpected places

About this edition

• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099558726
• ISBN 13: 9780099558729
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352