Instructions for the Drowning
Written by Steven Heighton
Narrated by Amos Crawley
()
About this audiobook
“To say Heighton is an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient ... As good a writer as Canada has ever produced.” — National Post
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.
Steven Heighton
Steven Heighton (1961–2022) was a writer and musician. His nineteen previous books include the novels Afterlands, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, and the bestselling The Shadow Boxer; the Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize finalist memoir Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos; and The Waking Comes Late, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry.
More audiobooks from Steven Heighton
Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Stray and the Strangers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to Instructions for the Drowning
Related audiobooks
Emergency: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Other People's Love Affairs: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Late in the Day: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Laughter: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Past: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How Strange a Season: Fiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Trondheim Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNobody Gets Out Alive: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How I Learned to Hate in Ohio: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Onlookers: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gloaming Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book of Extraordinary Tragedies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kings of Sark: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Dream Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Should We Stay or Should We Go: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Free Love: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Now in November Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Asymmetry: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bottled Goods: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Innocents and Others: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Upstate: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost Believers: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tides Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Empty Theatre Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lover: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Such Good Work: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Amendments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPete and Alice in Maine: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Short Stories For You
Maktub: An Inspirational Companion to The Alchemist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories of Your Life and Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Living Girl on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best of Edgar Allan Poe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is Salvaged: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Two Scorched Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UR Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skeleton Crew: Selections Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5LT's Theory of Pets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Other Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Orgy: A Short Story About Desire Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fragile Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Minority Report and Other Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Yellow Wallpaper: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four Past Midnight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gingerbread Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Collected Stories and Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Illustrated Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night of the Living Rez Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Instructions for the Drowning
0 ratings0 reviews