Imprint: Windmill Books
Published: 28/03/2013
ISBN: 9780099558729
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £8.99
** 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
Published: 28/03/2013
ISBN: 9780099558729
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £8.99
A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale ... This is a beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind.
Full of surprises and love and healing, Heft is the most unsentimental sentimental journey you will read this year.
Heft is written with a dry wit and the characters are hugely likeable … It’s moving and tragic too.
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.
A gentle fiction, as big-hearted as it’s star is heavy.