{"product_id":"sacred-rage-selected-stories-paperback","title":"Sacred Rage: Selected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven Heighton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe\u003c\/em\u003e 100 Best Book of 2025 - A \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Fall Book of 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A writer only feels like a writer when in the act. And the will, I said, is never enough . . . Where does inspiration, that sacred rage, originate? Maybe it's just a matter of stubbornly starting something new and writing your way into the slot.\"--Steven Heighton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years before his unexpected death, Steven Heighton wrote to his longtime editor John Metcalf to say that he understood that the short story marked his most important contribution to literature, and that \"after the novels, rereading and writing short stories again felt like returning home.\" In the fifteen stories taken from across his four collections, \u003cem\u003eSacred Rage\u003c\/em\u003e offers us Heighton as the moral explorer of the global suburbs, as chronicler of our innermost stories of love and fear, sleeping and waking, of a rebel \"unabashedly devoted to the old pursuit,\" as he once called it, \"of truth and beauty.\" These are stories of grace and the lack of it; of elegy and requiem; of hope and care in a world where these seem increasingly alien, stories by one of our most sharp-eyed and generous writers, whether you're discovering them for the first time, or once again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Heighton\u003c\/b\u003e (1961-2022) was a writer and musician. His nineteen previous books include the story collection\u003ci\u003e Instructions for the Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2023; the novels \u003ci\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice, and the bestselling\u003ci\u003e The Shadow Boxer\u003c\/i\u003e; the Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize finalist memoir \u003ci\u003eReaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Waking Comes Late\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47900194963595,"sku":"9781771966498","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/MPijuTTIsg9781771966498.webp?v=1783324241","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/sacred-rage-selected-stories-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}