Sacred Rage

By (author): Steven Heighton

“Steven Heighton had this stunning range of voice in his stories. He would go anywhere. He always surprised you.”—Michael Ondaatje

Following his New Yorker Best of 2023 collection, Instructions for the Drowning, Sacred Rage selects stories spanning the range of the late Steven Heighton’s career as a fiction writer.

AUTHOR

Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton (1961–2022) was a writer and musician. His nineteen previous books include the novels Afterlands, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and the bestselling The Shadow Boxer; the Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Prize finalist memoir Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos; and The Waking Comes Late, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

Reviews

Praise for Instructions for the Drowning

To read work like Heightons knowing that we wont get more of it inspires fury in all directions Every story in this collection has it whatever Heighton decided it would be pacing that thrills fragile love and blind hate descriptions you can smell and taste and hearltbr gtNew York Times

Heighton who died last year at 60 draws on our most vulnerable moments in this moving collection full of understated tension and exacting detail The characters feel both recognizable and oneofakindltbr gtNew York Times

These stories by a Canadian novelist poet and musician who died last year peer keenly into the penumbra surrounding deathltbr gtNew Yorker

To create so many small worlds and characters that feel so real and populate is an act of transcendence To do it well is to offer a gift In Instructions the late Steven Heighton has managed both and the gift is oursltbr gtGlobe and Mail

As these stories demonstrate human life is a means of exploration and celebration threaded through with darkness and loss In the midst of death Heighton seems to say we are in life it should be savouredltbr gtToronto Star

As a poet and later as fiction writer Steven Heighton had this stunning range of voice in his stories He would go anywhere He always surprised you His death as a still young writer is a tragedy and a great loss He was a writer who grew so much with each book You could always witness it happeningltbr gtMichael Ondaatje



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Dimensions:

288 Pages
8.25in * 5.25in * .75in
1.00gr

Published:

July 01, 2025

Publisher:

Biblioasis

ISBN:

9781771966498

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

Language:

eng

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