
Fire
George R. Stewart(Author)
NYRB Classics (Publisher)
Published on 27. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-1-68137-847-3 (ISBN)
Description
"From the author of Storm, a breathtaking novel about a raging fire and the path of destruction and change it leaves in its wake. Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire - smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake. Firefighters and lookouts, forest rangers and smokejumpers - as well as animals in the forest, many of them the bewildered victims of the blaze, and all the varied tress and bushes there - are characters of this realistic story"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
316 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68137-847-3 (9781681378473)
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George R. Stewart, introduction by Emma Rothschild