{"product_id":"alphabetical-diaries","title":"Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Recommended Read of the Year by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCritics Top Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e's 15 Best Books of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e's 20 Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePure Colour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade’s worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Slick and oddly captivating . . . Thrilling, very funny, often filthy, and a surprisingly powerful weapon against loneliness . . . How it achieves all this has to do with the sentences themselves, but even more than that with the unlikelihood of their arrangement; it’s the sentences’ crackpot proximity to one another that makes them sing.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Claire Dederer, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59341598097753,"sku":"9781250371737","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/6021\/files\/9781250371737.jpg?v=1788898561","url":"https:\/\/www.quaybooksstore.com\/products\/alphabetical-diaries","provider":"Quay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}