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