The Fires
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-9776799-1-1 (ISBN)
Description
Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests. In "The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan to carry out her husband's final wish-to be cremated-only to find herself entirely at sea in the strange new reality of the former Soviet republic, while in "The Exorcism," Tom Swanson begins to make sense of his life when he retrieves his angry daughter from her exclusive New England college after her expulsion for setting fire to a grand piano.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
155 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9776799-1-1 (9780977679911)
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Alan Cheuse is a longtime book commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and the author of The Light Possessed and The Grandmothers' Club: A Novel. A teacher in the writing program at George Mason University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, his short fiction has appeared in The Antioch Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. He lives in Washington, DC.