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The Shadow Boxer : A Novel
by Heighton, Steven
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0676971938
- ISBN 13
- 9780676971934
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Toronto, ON, CA: Alfred A Knopf, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 384pp. Pale blue cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Bumped spine heel. Board edges sun fading. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. A moving love story which is also about the power of romantic dreams and regret, about family ties and the power of place.
Synopsis
This is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets out to make it in the world but whose sexual and professional misadventures take him from a demanding, muscular boyhood on the shores of Lake Superior to the trendy, bohemian life of Toronto and even to Egypt. In the tradition of such classics as LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL and JUDE THE OBSCURE, THE SHADOW BOXER is that rarest of contemporary performances, an ambitious, unabashedly romantic story about an exposed soul determined to live life to the hilt. Only a writer of Steven Heighton's extraordinary gifts could pull it off with such unsentimental passion and literary grace.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008891
- Title
- The Shadow Boxer : A Novel
- Author
- Heighton, Steven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- ISBN 10
- 0676971938
- ISBN 13
- 9780676971934
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON, CA
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Fiction, thrillers,
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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- Edges
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