Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
Book Details
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Publish Date: Feb 6th, 2024
Pages: 224
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.50in - 0.44in - 0.69lb
EAN: 9781039007499
Categories: • Literary• Women• Biographical
About the Author
SHEILA HETI is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be? Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto.
Praise for this book
"A thought-provoking experiment in self-reflection and prose, Alphabetical Diaries is perhaps Sheila Heti's most intimate and most universal book yet." --Shelf Awareness