Steven Heighton

Instructions for the Drowning (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023

To say Heighton is an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient ... As good a writer as Canada has ever produced. National Post

The unforgettable last collection by the bestselling author of The Shadow Boxer

A man recalls his father's advice on how to save a drowning person, but struggles when the time comes to use it. A wife's good deed leaves a couple vulnerable at the moment when they're most in need of securitythe birth of their first child. Newly in love, a man preoccupied by accounts of freak accidents is befallen by one himself. In stories about love and fear, idealisms and illusions, failures of muscle and mind and all the ways we try to care for one another, Steven Heighton's Instructions for the Drowning is an indelible last collection by a writer working at the height of his powers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771965361
• Artikelnr.: 66250288

Autorenporträt

Steven Heighton (19612022) 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.