Winter’s Tales: Steven Heighton
One of Canada’s most talented, versatile, and eloquently riveting writers, will be the Winter’s Tales featured author for November. A book signing and reception will follow. As a novelist and short story writer, Heighton combines spell-binding narratives, intensely realized characters, vivid settings, rich language, and illuminating intelligence. Of his latest novel, Every Lost Country, set in Tibet, T.F. Rigelhof writes in The Globe and Mail, “Heighton takes the bare bones of an event occurring on the borderlines of most of our geographical, political and moral experiences, and refashions it into a novel that offers readers more than [just] big ideas and beautiful language… Every page, minor character and plot twist matters. Every Lost Country not only rivets readers to their seats, it challenges them to rethink the David-and-Goliath inequalities of this new millennium.”
A dazzling poet, Heighton will also read from his new poetry book, Patient Frame. Previous novels are Afterland, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and The Shadow Boxer, a Publisher’s Weekly Book of the Year. His short fiction collections are Flight Paths of the Emperor and On Earth As It Is. He has published four other poetry collections and a book of essays, The Admen Move on Lhasa.
Sponsored by the UPEI English Department, with support from The Canada Council for the Arts. www.stevenheighton.com
Time: Thursday, November @ 7:30p
Location: Main Faculty Lounge – UPEI, 550 University Avenue
Admission: Free
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