The arsonist
Record details
- ISBN: 0804194556 (large print paperback)
- ISBN: 9780804194556 (large print paperback)
- ISBN: 0804194556 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780804194556 :
- ISBN: 0804194556 :
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Physical Description:
465 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
large print - Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home -- home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns, and then another, always the homes of summer people. These frightening events, and the deep social fault lines that open in the town as a result, are observed and reported on by Bud Jacobs, a former political journalist, who has bought the local paper and moved to Pomeroy in an attempt to find a kind of home himself. As Bud and Frankie begin an unexpected, passionate affair, the fires upend a trusting small community where people have never before bothered to lock their doors; and Frankie and Bud bring wholly different perspectives to the questions of who truly owns the land, who belongs in the town, and how, or even whether, newcomers can make a real home there. |
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Subject: | New Hampshire Fiction Community life Fiction Aging parents Fiction Pyromania Fiction Arson investigation Fiction Arson Fiction Homecoming Fiction |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Suspense fiction. Large type books. |
Available copies
- 6 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Southbury Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Southbury Public Library | MILLER/LP (Text) | 34019131075434 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |