book review

Ontario author Steven Heighton died from cancer at the age of 60 in 2022.

Title: Sacred Rage

Author: Steven Heighton

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Biblioasis

Pages: 332

In his introduction to The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant , published earlier this year, the American novelist Garth Risk Hallberg explains that he developed the wonderful habit of reading a story a day until he’d made his way through all of them.

I liked this idea and did the same over the summer months, ending just in time to begin reading Steven Heighton’s Sacred Rage , a newly published selection from the four short-story collections he authored over his career.

Gallant and Heighton aren’t writers that immediately make sense together, generationally, never mind Gallant’s predominan

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