The Shadow Boxer - Softcover

Heighton, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618139338 ISBN 13: 9780618139330

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2002

Synopsis

This is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets out to make it in the world but whose sexual and professional misadventures take him from a demanding, muscular boyhood on the shores of Lake Superior to the trendy, bohemian life of Toronto and even to Egypt.
In the tradition of such classics as LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL and JUDE THE OBSCURE, THE SHADOW BOXER is that rarest of contemporary performances, an ambitious, unabashedly romantic story about an exposed soul determined to live life to the hilt. Only a writer of Steven Heighton's extraordinary gifts could pull it off with such unsentimental passion and literary grace.

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Review:

"One of the finest coming-of-age tales of recent years, and a spendid novelistic debut..." -starred Kirkus Reviews

"A remarkably accomplished, potent first novel . . . [written] in a disarmingly natural voice that shifts effortlessly in range." Publishers Weekly, Starred

"Elegantly crafted . . . ably captures the emotional costs of a young man's dream." The Washington Post

"Like a latter-day Holden Caulfield, Torrins rejects the phoniness that surrounds him." Library Journal

About the Author:

STEVEN HEIGHTON is the internationally acclaimed author of the novels Afterlands and The Shadow Boxer, a Mariner Original that was selected as a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. He has also written several books of poetry, short fiction, and essays. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into nine languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0618139338
• ISBN 13: 9780618139330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400