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The Fires

The Fires

The Fires
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The Fires Paperback - 2007

by Cheuse, Alan

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  • Title The Fires
  • Author Cheuse, Alan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Santa Fe Writers Project
  • Publication date 2007-09-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 57178029-6
  • ISBN 9780977679911 / 0977679918
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.3 x 0.33 in (20.27 x 13.46 x 0.84 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006939320
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2007, Page 34
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/28/2007, Page 33

About the author

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.

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