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The Shadow Boxer
"One hears instantly in the first few pages the sound of a writer who in his first novel has already found his style. Fluid, rhythmical, full of force and grace, his sentences compel you to keep reading."
-Wayne Johnston, author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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 and professional misadventures take him as far as Egypt before he finds his way back to the Great Lakes. But the classic writerly dream that Sevigne pursues turns out in practice to have a different and darker reality than any he had foreseen. Haunting and splendidly evocative, this is a passionate love story about the power of dreams and regret.
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- Knopf Canada, Canada, May 2000
- Granta Books, UK, June 2000
- Houghton Mifflin, U.S., March 2002
- Edizioni e/o, Italy, May 2003
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- National bestseller
- A Globe and Mail Best Book
- A Toronto Star Best Book
- A Publishers’ Weekly Best Book
Now in a third paperback printing, with Vintage Canada
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"Vivid and powerfully drawn…an energetic, fluent and interesting novel by a writer who has shown himself to be gifted, capable of exploring and experimenting with language."
-The Times Literary Supplement
"A bravura performance, intense and poetic… The Shadow Boxer fizzes with life and energy [and] has a swaggering, larger-than-life quality.”
-The Independent on Sunday
"The Shadow Boxer is symphonic, Mahler-like, in its shifting intensities as it makes segues between the sensory and the psychological--I can't think of another writer, not even Ondaatje, who can be so real while being so mannered. And musical."
-The Globe and Mail
"Heighton is a heavyweight--a master of realist narrative. [Here] what is old is made new again by pure virtuosity of execution."
-Vancouver Sun
"Deeply imagined, strongly felt, and--deliberately unfashionable. In a good way."
-Toronto Life
"Steven Heighton is a writer of high intelligence and wit, an immaculate and sensualist stylist whose prose moves fluidly from the acerbic to the erotic."
-Janette Turner Hospital, author of Oyster
"Heighton is like a young Ondaatje…a superb craftsman at ease in foreign places and distant times."
-The Globe and Mail
"Hypnotic, tense and rich…Heighton’s material is authentic; the scenes are exciting and true."
-Quill & Quire
"Heighton is artful both in conveying atmosphere--he has a sharp eye for the texture of life--and narrating a series of engrossing adventures."
-Toronto Star
"A rich, multi-layered novel…a remarkable journey of creative and spiritual self-discovery."
-eye weekly, (4 star review)
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Steven Heighton is a poet and fiction writer. His first novel was the critically acclaimed bestseller The Shadow Boxer, which went on to be published in five countries. His second novel, Afterlands, was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. His work has been translated into nine languages, has appeared in Poetry, Brick, The Independent, Malahat Review, The New York Times, Agni, Stand and Revue Europe, has been internationally anthologised (Best English Stories, Best of Best English Stories, The Minerva Book of Stories and others) and has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award. He has received the Lampert Award, The Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, gold medals for fiction and for poetry in the National Magazine Awards, the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in the Literature category (2010), and most recently the 2011 P. K. Page Founders’ Award for Poetry. His short story collections include Flight Paths of the Emperor (Trillium award finalist) and On earth as it is.
Steven's new collection of short stories is forthcoming from Knopf Canada in 2011. One of the stories won gold at the 2010 National Magazine Awards.
He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Visit Steven Heighton's website
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