Sacred Rage: Selected Stories

Author/Contributor(s):	Heighton, Steven
Publisher:	Biblioasis
Date:	08/19/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In the years before his unexpected death, returning to short fiction after a long absence, 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, Sacred Rage 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"--