Editions

Heft

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • ISBN: 9780099558729

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £8.99

Heft

** 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.

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • ISBN: 9780099558729

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "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

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About the Author

Liz Moore

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.

Liz Moore

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