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Heighton, Steven

The Shadow Boxer

A.A.Knopf, 2000

30.00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
2000
ISBN
0676971938
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Heighton, Steven
Publishers
A.A.Knopf
Edition
1st Canadian Edition.
Keyword
FICTION GREEK CANADIAN AUTHOR
Cover description
Fine
Binding description
H
Inscription description
Signed by Author(s)
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

Signed by author on title page. 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.