Alphabetical Diaries

(Paperback)

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Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Leve's Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.

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'AlphabeticalDiariesis a testament to Heti's artistic power. She gently leads the reader into new dimensions of language previously undiscovered. Beautiful and uncompromising.'

- Marlowe Granados, author of Happy Hour

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'A book that is in many ways is an ode to the sentence; from the muscle of single line to the power that comes with accrual. An immersive and hugely entertaining read.'

-Sinead Gleeson author ofConstellations

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'I am drawn to Sheila Heti's writing like a moth to a flame andAlphabetical Diariesis amongst the most affecting, exquisite books I've ever encountered. It is, simply put, utterly and startlingly good. Heti writes so creaturely, so bodily, that it feels like a whole new genre is being formed as we read.'

- Kerri ni Dochartaigh author ofCacophony of Bone

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'I'll read anything Sheila Heti writes.'

- Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts

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'Pure Colour is the apocalypse written as trance, a sleep-walker's song about the end of all things... an original, a book that says something new for our difficult times.'

- Anne Enright, Guardian (on Pure Colour)

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Author Bio

Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novelsPure Colour,Motherhood, andHow Should a Person Be, whichNew Yorkmagazine deemed one of the New Classics of the twenty-first century. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto, Canada.Alphabetical Diariesis her first book with Fitzcarraldo Editions.