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Fire Sermon

Fire Sermon

Fire Sermon Paperback / softback - 1979

by Wright Morris

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  • Title Fire Sermon
  • Author Wright Morris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1979-09-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780803281042
  • ISBN 9780803281042 / 0803281048
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.12 x 0.45 in (20.42 x 13.00 x 1.14 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Western stories, Older men
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 79014763
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 10

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Reader reviews for Fire Sermon

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"A radiant expression of the art [Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy it will stick in the minds of the congregation for a long time. . . . On the one hand, this is a novel of alienation and on the other, a novel about the discovery of identity. The author's overall concern . . . is the destiny of man. In this novel--perhaps more clearly and movingly than ever before--he carries the reader with him, until astonishment, awe, compassion, laughter, and exultation mingle in a tragic sense of life."--Granville Hicks, New York Times Book Review

The ceremony of the old giving way to the new, the young breaking away from what is old, may well be the one constant in the ceaseless flux of American life. Fire Sermon reenacts this ceremony in the entangled lives of three young people and one old man. A chance meeting on the highway links a hippie couple to the eastward journey of an old man and a boy. For the boy it is a daily drama testing and questioning his allegiance. To which world does he belong? To the familiar ties and affections of the old or the disturbing and alluring charms of the new?

One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award.

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