Instructions for the Drowning (audiobook)

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https://www..com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/00_BO019_INSTRUCTIONS-FOR-THE-DROWNING_SAMPLE.mp3To say Heighton is an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient As good a writer as Canada has ever produced.National PostA man recalls his fathers advice on how to save a drowning person, but struggles when the time comes to use it. A wifes good deed leaves a couple vulnerable at the moment when theyre 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 HeightonsInstructions for the Drowningis an indelible last collection by a writer working at the height of his powers.Audiobook read by Amos Crawley.Praise forInstructions for the DrowningThis last collection is one to be savoured.Toronto StarInInstructions for the Drowning, however, he uses his poets precision, his depth as a novelist, and his intimacy as a memoirist to give us a glimpse of the closure he may have hoped forfor himself, for his characters, and also for his readers.The WalrusHeighton will go down as one of the brightest stars in Canadian literary history.FreeFall MagazineMasterful the Joycean stories collected inInstructions for the Drowningare searing reminders: that the other side of rage is a vale of tears.Foreword Reviews(starred)Instructions for the Drowningis a short story collection explores themes of love and fear, delusion and idealism and the ironic ways we come up short despite trying our very best.CBC BooksIn these 11 expertly constructed and memorable short stories, he excels at capturing his subjects at moments of maximum stress, in the process illuminating different aspects of the human character.Shelf AwarenessAs a poet and later as fiction writer Steven Heighton had this stunning range of voice in his stories. He would go anywhere. He always surprised you. His death as a still young writer is a tragedy and a great loss. He was a writer who grew so much with each book. You could always witness it happening.Michael Ondaatje, author ofWarlightandThe English PatientSteven Heighton is one of our most ethical, profound writers. These stories face delusion and illumination, rebellion and surrender, they shock with their beauty and their understanding. The characters, living and dead, are gatherers of knowledge yet the deepest parts of themselves come alive in all they cannot know. Heighton leaves us an unforgettable work that, through its rigour and exactitude, finds within itself a desperately moving liberation.Madeleine Thien, author ofDo Not Say We Have NothingPraise for Steven Heighton[A] brilliant storyteller [His] exquisite, powerful meditations on who we are place Heighton among the great Canadian writers His focus is contemporary, but he is a practitioner of the old school, a writer for those who love to read widely and deeply.Donna Bailey Nurse,Literary Review of CanadaThe key to the books force is Heightons imperative to humanize and individualize everyone he encounters These are not statistics but people, each sensitively depicted A stunning book, by turns heartbreaking and affirming, fundamentally human in its depth and scope.Quill & Quire(starred review)Vivid and powerfully drawn The Shadow Boxer is an energetic, fluent and interesting novel by a writer who has already shown himself to be gifted, capable of exploring and experimenting with language.Times Literary SupplementHeighton works (and plays) with words in wondrous ways few contemporary poets even dream of attempting, let alone conquering.Judith Fitzgerald,Globe and Mail