Steven Heighton
Steven Heighton is the author of the novel Afterlands, which has appeared in six countries; was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice along with a best book of the year selection in ten publications in Canada, the US, and the UK; and has been optioned for film. He is also the author of The Shadow Boxer, a Canadian bestseller and a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. His work has been translated into ten languages, and his poems and stories have appeared in the London Review of Books, Poetry, Tin House, The Walrus, Europe, Agni, Poetry London, Brick, Best...
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The Dead Are More Visible
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36668-9 (0-307-36668-5)
May 1, 2012 | $14.99
An astoundingly original and tightly curated collection of stories from the award-winning author of Every Lost Country and Afterlands.
It is remarkably easy to accept Al Purdy's assertion that Steven Heighton--renowned for his craftsmanship, risk-taking, insight and range--"is one of the best writers of his generation, maybe the best." The Dead Are...
Written by Steven Heighton
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36668-9 (0-307-36668-5)
May 1, 2012 | $14.99
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An astoundingly original and tightly curated collection of stories from the award-winning author of Every Lost Country and Afterlands.
It is remarkably easy to accept Al Purdy's assertion that Steven Heighton--renowned for his craftsmanship, risk-taking, insight and range--"is one of the best writers of his generation, maybe the best." The Dead Are...
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trade paperback.
The Dead Are More Visible
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-39741-6 (0-307-39741-6)
May 1, 2012 | $22.00
An astoundingly original and tightly curated collection of stories from the award-winning author of Every Lost Country and Afterlands.
It is remarkably easy to accept Al Purdy's assertion that Steven Heighton--renowned for his craftsmanship, risk-taking, insight and range--"is one of the best writers of his generation, maybe the best." The Dead Are...
Written by Steven Heighton
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-39741-6 (0-307-39741-6)
May 1, 2012 | $22.00
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An astoundingly original and tightly curated collection of stories from the award-winning author of Every Lost Country and Afterlands.
It is remarkably easy to accept Al Purdy's assertion that Steven Heighton--renowned for his craftsmanship, risk-taking, insight and range--"is one of the best writers of his generation, maybe the best." The Dead Are...
Also available as an
eBook.
Every Lost Country
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39740-9 (0-307-39740-8)
May 24, 2011 | $21.00
“The longer you stare at the mountain, the more it seems a refuge above human borders and distinctions and this constant dialogue of violence. Up there, he’d hoped, he and Sophie could step away from trouble for a while.”
Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his...
Written by Steven Heighton
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39740-9 (0-307-39740-8)
May 24, 2011 | $21.00
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“The longer you stare at the mountain, the more it seems a refuge above human borders and distinctions and this constant dialogue of violence. Up there, he’d hoped, he and Sophie could step away from trouble for a while.”
Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his...
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Murder in the Dark
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-553-3 (1-55199-553-0)
December 17, 2010 | $8.99
First published in 1983, Murder in the Dark is Margaret Atwood's seventh work of fiction or her tenth book of poetry, depending on how you slice it. These short prose forms range from fictionalized autobiography through prose-poetry, mini-romance, and mini–science fiction.
A feast of comic entertainment, Murder in the Dark is Atwood...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-553-3 (1-55199-553-0)
December 17, 2010 | $8.99
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First published in 1983, Murder in the Dark is Margaret Atwood's seventh work of fiction or her tenth book of poetry, depending on how you slice it. These short prose forms range from fictionalized autobiography through prose-poetry, mini-romance, and mini–science fiction.
A feast of comic entertainment, Murder in the Dark is Atwood...
Also available as a
paperback.
The Shadow Boxer
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36947-5 (0-307-36947-1)
October 29, 2010 | $13.99
Steven Heighton is already recognized as one of the best writers to come to the fore in the nineties, a winner of numerous literary awards, whose work is widely translated. In The Shadow Boxer, he delivers a stunning portrait of the artist in the tradition of such great tales as Jude...
Written by Steven Heighton
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36947-5 (0-307-36947-1)
October 29, 2010 | $13.99
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Steven Heighton is already recognized as one of the best writers to come to the fore in the nineties, a winner of numerous literary awards, whose work is widely translated. In The Shadow Boxer, he delivers a stunning portrait of the artist in the tradition of such great tales as Jude...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
On earth as it is
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36950-5 (0-307-36950-1)
October 15, 2010 | $13.99
The interlocking worlds of the erotic and the religious are explored in the novella and ten stories in this collection. The stories range through time and space, from present-day Toronto to the nineteenth-century high Arctic, from the Greek Islands to Kathmandu, from a tunnel under Vimy Ridge in 1915 where a...
Written by Steven Heighton
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36950-5 (0-307-36950-1)
October 15, 2010 | $13.99
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The interlocking worlds of the erotic and the religious are explored in the novella and ten stories in this collection. The stories range through time and space, from present-day Toronto to the nineteenth-century high Arctic, from the Greek Islands to Kathmandu, from a tunnel under Vimy Ridge in 1915 where a...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Flight Paths of the Emperor
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36949-9 (0-307-36949-8)
October 8, 2010 | $13.99
Set mainly in the psychologically insulated communities of expatriate teachers in Osaka, Japan, these fourteen stories seek to understand issues of national or personal honour, and the problematic importance of family. Heighton also examines subtly related themes, like death, age, marriage, war and poetry, while hinting at autobiography throughout. Sophisticated, passionate...
Written by Steven Heighton
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36949-9 (0-307-36949-8)
October 8, 2010 | $13.99
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Set mainly in the psychologically insulated communities of expatriate teachers in Osaka, Japan, these fourteen stories seek to understand issues of national or personal honour, and the problematic importance of family. Heighton also examines subtly related themes, like death, age, marriage, war and poetry, while hinting at autobiography throughout. Sophisticated, passionate...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Afterlands
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36948-2 (0-307-36948-X)
June 11, 2010 | $13.99
In 1872, the USS Polaris sailed for the Arctic on a mission to hoist the U.S. flag at the North Pole. But the expedition was a failure, and half of the party – nineteen men, women and children of different nationalities–were cast adrift on an ice floe off the coast of...
Written by Steven Heighton
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36948-2 (0-307-36948-X)
June 11, 2010 | $13.99
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In 1872, the USS Polaris sailed for the Arctic on a mission to hoist the U.S. flag at the North Pole. But the expedition was a failure, and half of the party – nineteen men, women and children of different nationalities–were cast adrift on an ice floe off the coast of...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Every Lost Country
eBook | 352 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37395-3 (0-307-37395-9)
May 4, 2010 | $13.99
“The longer you stare at the mountain, the more it seems a refuge above human borders and distinctions and this constant dialogue of violence. Up there, he’d hoped, he and Sophie could step away from trouble for a while.”
Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his...
Written by Steven Heighton
eBook | 352 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37395-3 (0-307-37395-9)
May 4, 2010 | $13.99
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“The longer you stare at the mountain, the more it seems a refuge above human borders and distinctions and this constant dialogue of violence. Up there, he’d hoped, he and Sophie could step away from trouble for a while.”
Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Afterlands
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97678-6 (0-676-97678-6)
August 1, 2006 | $19.95
In 1872, the USS Polaris sailed for the Arctic on a mission to hoist the U.S. flag at the North Pole. But the expedition was a failure, and half of the party – nineteen men, women and children of different nationalities–were cast adrift on an ice floe off the coast of...
Written by Steven Heighton
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97678-6 (0-676-97678-6)
August 1, 2006 | $19.95
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In 1872, the USS Polaris sailed for the Arctic on a mission to hoist the U.S. flag at the North Pole. But the expedition was a failure, and half of the party – nineteen men, women and children of different nationalities–were cast adrift on an ice floe off the coast of...
Also available as an
eBook.
On earth as it is
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97399-0 (0-676-97399-X)
September 11, 2001 | $18.95
The interlocking worlds of the erotic and the religious are explored in the novella and ten stories in this collection. The stories range through time and space, from present-day Toronto to the nineteenth-century high Arctic, from the Greek Islands to Kathmandu, from a tunnel under Vimy Ridge in 1915 where a...
Written by Steven Heighton
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97399-0 (0-676-97399-X)
September 11, 2001 | $18.95
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The interlocking worlds of the erotic and the religious are explored in the novella and ten stories in this collection. The stories range through time and space, from present-day Toronto to the nineteenth-century high Arctic, from the Greek Islands to Kathmandu, from a tunnel under Vimy Ridge in 1915 where a...
Also available as an
eBook.
Flight Paths of the Emperor
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97400-3 (0-676-97400-7)
August 14, 2001 | $18.95
Set mainly in the psychologically insulated communities of expatriate teachers in Osaka, Japan, these fourteen stories seek to understand issues of national or personal honour, and the problematic importance of family. Heighton also examines subtly related themes, like death, age, marriage, war and poetry, while hinting at autobiography throughout. Sophisticated, passionate...
Written by Steven Heighton
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97400-3 (0-676-97400-7)
August 14, 2001 | $18.95
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Set mainly in the psychologically insulated communities of expatriate teachers in Osaka, Japan, these fourteen stories seek to understand issues of national or personal honour, and the problematic importance of family. Heighton also examines subtly related themes, like death, age, marriage, war and poetry, while hinting at autobiography throughout. Sophisticated, passionate...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Shadow Boxer
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97359-4 (0-676-97359-0)
May 22, 2001 | $21.00
Already highly-acclaimed as a poet and short-story writer, The Shadow Boxer announces Steven Heighton's arrival as a major new novelist on the Canadian literary scene. Intricately patterned and multi-layered, this is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets off into the world to make it, and whose romantic...
Written by Steven Heighton
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97359-4 (0-676-97359-0)
May 22, 2001 | $21.00
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Already highly-acclaimed as a poet and short-story writer, The Shadow Boxer announces Steven Heighton's arrival as a major new novelist on the Canadian literary scene. Intricately patterned and multi-layered, this is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets off into the world to make it, and whose romantic...
Also available as an
eBook.
Murder in the Dark
Paperback | 96 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3464-0 (0-7710-3464-4)
November 1, 1997 | $9.95
First published in 1983, Murder in the Dark is Margaret Atwood's seventh work of fiction or her tenth book of poetry, depending on how you slice it. These short prose forms range from fictionalized autobiography through prose-poetry, mini-romance, and mini–science fiction.
A feast of comic entertainment, Murder in the Dark is Atwood...
Paperback | 96 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3464-0 (0-7710-3464-4)
November 1, 1997 | $9.95
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First published in 1983, Murder in the Dark is Margaret Atwood's seventh work of fiction or her tenth book of poetry, depending on how you slice it. These short prose forms range from fictionalized autobiography through prose-poetry, mini-romance, and mini–science fiction.
A feast of comic entertainment, Murder in the Dark is Atwood...
Also available as an
eBook.
