The Shadow Boxer
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A passionate love story, a gripping narrative, The Shadow Boxer is also about the power of dreams and regret. It heralds a major new Canadian novelist and a master storyteller.
Steven Heighton
STEVEN HEIGHTON (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection The Waking Comes Late (House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir Reaching Mithymna (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was also the author of the novel Afterlands, which was published in six countries, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include The Ecstasy of Skeptics and The Address Book. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the London Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, the Independent, the Literary Review, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in Best English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories, and Best American Mystery Stories; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, The Devil’s Share. To listen, visit www.wolfeislandrecords.com/stevenheighton.
Read more from Steven Heighton
Afterlands: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Selected Poems 1983–2020 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWorkbook: Memos & Dispatches On Writing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Patient Frame Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Virtues of Disillusionment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSongbook: The Lyrics and Music of Steven Heighton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Shadow Boxer
Related ebooks
The Sea Fogs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpirit Falls: Book One in the Long War Series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost Tavern: A Pirate's Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeart of Darkness Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Third Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5West of Wisdom: A Tale of Lust and Love in the South Pacific Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSmoke and Shorty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hearst Castle’s Lost Treasure Mystery! The Luke Mitchner Series Book Three Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Muskie Hook Re-Cast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Narrative of Charles Marlow: 4 Book Collection - Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Youth & Chance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lightkeeper's Daughters: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bread or Bullets: Voyages of the Redondo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Saint of the Speedway Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Woman-Haters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Frontier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreat Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trail Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPortersville Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYouth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Round Anvil Rock: A Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lighthouse: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spirit Falls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Digging Leviathan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Heart of Darkness (Annotated): A Tar & Feather Classic: Straight Up With a Twist: A Tar & Feather Classic: Straight Up With a Twist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnce the Shore: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Down the Columbia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHigh Water Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKetchikan: A Short Story from Legend of a Suicide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Coming of Age Fiction For You
The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If We Were Villains: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cider House Rules Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daughter of the Moon Goddess: A Fantasy Romance Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The St. Ambrose School for Girls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kitchen House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People We Keep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Foster Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A River Enchanted: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yellow Wife: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Play It as It Lays: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prodigal Summer: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Island of Sea Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Missing Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Earthlings: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Shadow Boxer
0 ratings0 reviews