Those Who Favor Fire - Rilegato

Wolk, Lauren

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ISBN 10: 0679448497 ISBN 13: 9780679448495

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1999

Riassunto

The small community of Belle Haven is more closely knit than usual due to the ever-present mine fire that burns uncontrollably underneath the town and occasionally breaks the surface to claim a garbage can or beloved pet. A first novel. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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Recensione

Advance praise for Those Who Favor Fire:

"In Lauren Wolk's capable hands, the story of a close-knit community struggling to coexist with an underground inferno becomes a meditation on trust and betrayal, loyalty and freedom, and the necessary balance between loving and letting go. This novel is by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, but beautifully written throughout. A stunning debut."--Aimee Liu, author of Cloud Mountain

"Add all three of my names to a burgeoning list of fans: those who favor Lauren Wolk. Cozy as a country kitchen, this novel is, in part, a spice rack of a town remembered. Again I am home, inhaling bogs, barns, and Angela's muffins."--Robert Newton Peck, author of A Day No Pigs Would Die

"First-time novelist Wolk has conceived an engrossing plot and peopled it with appealing characters. [R]eminiscent of the best of Shirley Jackson."--Publishers Weekly

L'autore

Lauren Wolk was born in Baltimore and has since lived in California, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Canada, and Ohio.  She now lives with her husband and two sons on Cape Cod, where she is at work on a second novel.  After graduating from Brown University in 1981, Wolk worked as a writer for the Battered Women's Project of the St. Paul American Indian Center. She later moved to Toronto, where she was a senior editor with Nelson Canada. Since the birth of her first son, Wolk has been a freelance writer and editor. She is also a contributing editor for OWL, an award-winning children's magazine.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679448497
• ISBN 13: 9780679448495
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 374