Workbook: Memos & Dispatches On Writing - Softcover

Heighton, Steven

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ISBN 10: 1550229370 ISBN 13: 9781550229370

Verlag: ECW Press, 2011

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"The bone-chilling lunar landscape [is] powerfully evoked." --"National Post"

"A gorgeous book in so many ways -- well-written, packed with interesting history and great views. . . . It's a compelling, rewarding read." --"The Mirror (Montreal)"

"These observations are refreshing in their honesty, directness, and humour. Also refreshing is Heighton's refusal to compromise on the discipline required to write and read well." --www.StevenWBeattie.com

"Considering the subject matter, "Every Lost Country" is a surprisingly apolitical book. The lost countries of the title could just as well refer to the yearning for home any individual may suffer as to the circumstances of the Tibetan people. The novel's strong suit is its characters, and their actions are true to the dictates of their emotions." --"The Gazette "on "Every Lost Country"

"The writing moves skilfully through a range of registers, from tragic to (darkly) comic, intimate to political. And the magnificent setting is dramatically evoked on a lush canvas. . . . "Every Lost Country" has an expansive moral vision wedded to a thrilling plot." --"Quill & Quire" on "Every Lost Country"

"Heighton as character, hero of the workbook on writing, exhibits his own contradictions even in this finely pared down work of many years. And it's a stronger work for it. Of the genre, certainly, one of the better." --"National Post"

"A Lord Jim for the 21st century, but told with the pace of the slickest modern thriller. . . With" Every Lost Country", Heighton not only succumbs to the modern taste for non-stop action, he masters it. . . . Fast-paced, clear and hard-hitting. . . . What sets the novel far above the thriller norm is the diversity of the viewpoints it incorporates, blended invisibly into the heart-pounding narrative by means of constant small miracles of characterization. . . . Readers who decide to follow along will experience a fast and often harrowing ride. But be warned: Once embarked, there is no escape." --John Barber, "The Globe and Mail "on "Every Lost Country"

"A truly exceptional novel . . . "Every Lost Country" will be cherished for its characters, who are numerous, challenging and deeply alive; for its precise and beautiful language; and for its ambitious (and successful) effort to grapple with issues that are central to the way we live in a world of ever-increasing moral ambiguity." --"The Walrus Blog" on "Every Lost Country"

"From the opening pages, you won't be able to put down Steven Heighton's "Every Lost Country". A dizzying read, it's one of those rare finds where gorgeously drawn characters and a galloping plot merge effortlessly. Heighton proves himself once again a young lion of Canadian literature." -- Joseph Boyden, author of "Through Black Spruce" on "Every Lost Country"

""Every Lost Country" is thrillingly plotted, elegantly detailed, and alive with characters who will seem as real to you as people you've known for years and can still talk to for hours on the phone. Heighton sets them down in what is literally the world's most breathtaking landscape, at the very limits of human physiology, where the compass of moral courage points them into uncharted territory. Read this novel to be transported and enthralled." -- Jamie Zeppa, author of "Beyond the Sky and the Earth "on "Every Lost Country"

Reseña del editor

Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of The Afterword,” Steven Heighton’s memos and dispatches to himself a writer’s pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing have been tweeted and retweeted, discussed and tacked to bulletin boards everywhere. Coalesced, completed, and collected here for the first time, a wholly new kind of book has emerged, one that’s as much about creative process as it is about created product, at once about living life and the writing life. I stick to a form that bluntly admits its own limitation and partiality and makes a virtue of both things,” Heighton writes in his foreword, a form that lodges no claim to encyclopedic completeness, balance, or conclusive truth. At times, this form (I’m going to call it the memo) is a hybrid of the epigram and the précis, or of the aphorism and the abstract, the maxim and the debater’s initial be-it-resolved. At other times it’s a meditation in the Aurelian sense, a dispatch-to-self that aspires to address other selves readers as well.” It’s in these very aspirations, reaching both back into and forward in time and, ultimately, outside of the pages of the book itself that Heighton offers perhaps the freshest, most provocative picture of what it means to create the literature of the modern world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ECW Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1550229370
• ISBN 13: 9781550229370
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72