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Feb 19, 2006 these issues and others are tackled by steven heighton in his ambitious second novel, afterlands. Steven heighton is the internationally acclaimed author of the novels afterlands and the shadow boxer, a mariner original that was selected as a publishers weekly book of the year. Afterlands, a profoundly moving and gripping book, takes characters drawn from history and transforms their experiences into an absorbing tale of unrequited. The polaris intended to sail to the north pole in 1871 and place the american flag there, but faced rough seas, thick ice, and the untimely death of her captain. Heighton turned again to the novel form with afterlands, based on the truelife story of a group of arctic explorers trapped for months on a drifting, ever shrinking ice floe. The novel has been optioned for film by pall grimsson and is in preproduction. Steven heighton author of the nightingale wont let you sleep. He is the author of fourteen books, including three short story collections, four. Read afterlands by steven heighton available from rakuten kobo. He is also the author of the shadow boxer, a canadian bestseller and a publishers weekly book of the year. I felt the historical facts so compelling there was no need to embellish upon them, and had difficulty visualizing events as the ice floe started breaking up.
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Afterlands by steven heighton overdrive rakuten overdrive. The theme of displacement sounds throughout steven heightons magnificent book as a powerful undertow. Afterlands, steven heighton a novel based mostly on an incredible true survival story. Steven heightons second novel has at its core the true story of the first, and perhaps most remarkable, of these failures, the voyage of the polaris. All of the factual elements of afterlands are well known to students of arctic history. Steven heighton is the author of twelve books, including the short story collections flight paths of the emperor and on earth as it is. Apr 01, 20 steven heighton is the author of the novel afterlands, which has been nominated for the ontario library association evergreen award and was a globe and mail, national post, ottawa citizen, vancouver province, and vancouver sun best book in 2005. Peter nichols enjoys a novel that strips the human spirit bare, steven heightons afterlands.
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