Heather, the Totality
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3.1 • 60 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.
Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mad Men creator Weiner crafts a finely honed tale that highlights class conflict. Mark Breakstone, a Manhattan financier, and his charming wife, Karen, may not quite be able to afford a penthouse apartment, but the couple have a wonderful daughter, Heather, who grows to be a beautiful teen, smart and full of empathy for others. Both her parents cherish her, despite the normal disappointments, arguments, and misunderstandings. These dramas play out in their heads or in minor squabbles, rendering the Breakstones as pitiful and mundane as many other families, despite their wealth. In contrast, Bobby Klasky is a pitiless, textbook sociopath, with a drug-addicted single mother and a record of violence toward animals. Convinced of his superiority over everyone, Bobby chooses the alluring Heather, whom he first spots on a Manhattan rooftop from an adjoining building where he's doing construction work, as the victim of his rape, torture, and murder fantasy, which he plans to carry out in the real world. Weiner somewhat telegraphs his final twist, but the results of that twist may still surprise.
Customer Reviews
Overpriced!
I don’t usually quibble over the price of a book, but this is not a book. At best, it’s a long short story; only 94 pages for $13.99! And the story itself, while compelling, is incomplete. Where’s the rest of it?! I was very, very disappointed.
Don't buy this book
This was possibly the worst book I have ever read. So sorry I paid $14 for it. If I could rate it 0 stars I would have.
Heather the Totality
It’s not a novel, it’s a short story, at best. There is a twist, but it is definitely not worth your time or money. Dark and depressing.