The Shadow Boxer [Signed 1st Printing + Signed, Dated Launch Flyer]

Heighton, Steven (1961-2022)

ISBN 10: 0676971938 / ISBN 13: 9780676971934

Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2000

About this Item

1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition of the author's first novel SIGNED by the late Steven Heighton on the title page. LAID IN: a one-page FLYER promoting the "Exclusive Book Launch Event" at a bookstore in Kingston, Ontario, where Heighton made his home at the time of the book's publication. The author also SIGNED the flyer and DATED it on the date of the launch, 11 May 2000. This copy is crisp and tight with sharp corners, and the jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. Faint, unobtrusive flecks of foxing to the top exposed page edges. Canadian orders will be charged GST.

Seller Inventory # 000443

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Shadow Boxer [Signed 1st Printing + Signed, Dated Launch Flyer]
• Publisher: Knopf Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0676971938
• ISBN 13: 9780676971934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Fiction, Autographed
  • Deceased Authors, Autographed
  • Signed, Dated Year of Publication

About this title

Synopsis

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 the Obscure, Candide and even Don Quixote, and gives literary life to the Northern Ontario landscape of "the Soo", and the demanding, muscular life of Lake Superior where giant ore-barges make their way over the grave of The Edmund Fitzgerald. 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.

A passionate love story, a gripping narrative, The Shadow Boxer is also about the power of dreams and regret. It heralds a major new Canadian novelist and a master storyteller.

About the Author

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 English Stories, and many others. Heighton has won several awards and has been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Award, and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award.