Pure Colour: A Novel, Sheila Heti
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Pure Colour: A Novel

Author: Sheila Heti

Narrator: Sheila Heti

Unabridged: 3 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 02/15/2022

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Synopsis

Pure Colour is a galaxy of an audiobook: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cover Art © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

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