** 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.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099558729
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 245 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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
I loved this book. Difficult subjects are tackled without any sentimentality. Arthur weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his house in years. When he is suddenly contacted by a former student Charlene who he was... More
This is the story of two very differnt men - overweight, retired lecturer Arthur and 17 year old troubled teen Kel - whose stories are brought together by an unexpected phone call. With a host of likeable, believable... More
A moving tale of isolation and acceptance told from the points of view of two individuls who are not as different as they first appear. Arthur Opp is an overweight, middle aged man who has become a recluse in his own... More
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