An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

A Novel

Hardcover, 305 pages

English language

Published Sept. 4, 2007 by Algonquin Books.

ISBN:
978-1-56512-551-3
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I suspect that it was supposed to be a parody of the effect of literature on contemporary Americans. But the book (the first part of it anyway) came out as merely silly. I'm afraid that Fforde does literary jokes much better. And the last part of the book ended up as utterly morbid.

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Subjects

  • American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Literary
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Family Life
  • 1830-1886
  • Amherst
  • Black humor (Literature)
  • Dickinson, Emily,
  • Homes and haunts
  • Massachusetts
  • New England