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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 difficult family life. 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 shatters their isolation. Told with warmth and intelligence through Arthur and Kel s own quirky and lovable voices, Heft is the story of two improbable heroes whose connection transforms both their lives. It is a memorable, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive novel about finding sustenance and friendship in the most surprising places."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Heft
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Liz Moore
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780393343885
• ISBN: 039334388X
• ID: 04604815
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 142 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. August 2012

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