Heft by Liz Moore

Heft by Liz Moore

A heartwarming novel about larger-than-life characters and second chances 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 baseball 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. Through Arthur and Kel's own quirky and lovable voices, Heft tells the winning story of two improbable heroes whose sudden connection transforms both their lives. Like Elizabeth McCracken's The Giant's House, Heft is a novel about love and family found in the most unexpected places.

"Moore’s characters are lovingly drawn…A truly original voice" -- The New Yorker
"Heft achieves real poignancy…The warmth, the humanity and the hope in this novel make it compelling and pleasurable." -- Washington Post
"Few novelists of recent memory have put our bleak isolation into words as clearly as Liz Moore does in her new novel." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"[Moore] writes with compassion and emotional insight but resists sentimentality…Heft leads to hope." -- People
"Tender, thoughtful." -- New York Times Book Review
"Moore’s writing is clear, persuasive, and totally engaging, bringing her characters to life in all their sweet, quirky glory." -- Boston Globe
"This is not a novel with a happy ending, and that’s a good thing. Moore doesn’t tie her story up in a pretty package and hand it to the reader with care, but artfully acknowledges in the end that some heavy loads cannot easily be left behind." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Every once in a while, you read a book with such well-written, memorable characters that you know you’re going to remember them forever…Heft is a wonderful oddball of a book. I loved it." -- Jennifer Weiner
"A suspenseful, restorative novel from one of our fine young voices." -- Colum McCann
"This is the real deal, Liz Moore is the real deal—she's written a novel that will stick with you long after you've finished it." -- Russell Banks
"Heft is a work that radiantly combines compassion and a clear-eyed vision. This is a novel of rare originality and sophistication." -- Mary Gordon
"In Heft, Liz Moore creates a cast of vulnerable, lonely misfits that will break your heart and then make it soar. What a terrific novel!" -- Ann Hood

Liz Moore is the author of the acclaimed novel Heft. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia.

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ISBN 13	9780393343885
ISBN 10	039334388X
Title	Heft
Author	Liz Moore
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2012-08-22
Number of pages	368
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.