Description
** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RENEE 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.
An unforgettable novel about finding love in the most unexpected places
About the Author
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.
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 *Book Information
ISBN 9780099558729
Author Liz Moore
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Windmill Books
Publisher Cornerstone
Weight(grams) 245g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm
