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...BOXER SHORTS: Kirkus is rhapsodic about "The Shadow Boxer," a debut novel by Steven Heighton (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin; February 25), giving it a starred review. "The ghosts of Jack London, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac all hover approvingly over a terrific first novel by Heighton, an Ontario poet and story writer...One of the finest coming of age tales in recent years, and a splendid novelistic debut by a writer who seems to be just now entering a most impressive maturity." Author tour...
...tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband's left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster and faster. His face was twisted with pain and his hands pressed together...
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