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Instructions for the drowning : stories / Steven Heighton.

by Heighton, Steven, 1961-2022.

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Biblioasis, 2023.

9781771965354 (trade pbk)

217 p. ; 21 cm.

"A John Metcalf book."

Instructions for the drowning -- Repeat to failure -- As if in prayer -- Expecting -- Professions of love -- You're going to live -- Who now lies sleeping -- Everything turns away -- Desire lines -- Notes towards a new theory of tears -- The stages of J. Gordon Whitehead.

"The unforgettable last collection by the bestselling author of The Shadow Boxer A man recalls his father's advice on how to save a drowning person, but struggles when the time comes to use it. A wife’s good deed leaves a couple vulnerable at the moment when they’re most in need of security -- the birth of their first child. Newly in love, a man preoccupied by accounts of freak accidents is befallen by one himself. In stories about love and fear, idealisms and illusions, failures of muscle and mind and all the ways we try to care for one another, Steven Heighton’s Instructions for the Drowning is an indelible last collection by a writer working at the height of his powers."--Publisher.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Literary fiction.

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