The Fire–Dwellers (Phoenix Fiction S.) - Softcover

Laurence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226469514 ISBN 13: 9780226469515

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Synopsis

Stacey MacAindra is smart, witty, brave, and a bit desperate. Her marriage, her four children, and her happiness seem to be threatened by everything from well-meaning neighbors to her own sudden impulses for adventure. Her apparently staid suburban life involves an appalling abduction, strange romance, sudden death, and unexpected appearances by characters from other novels in the Manawaka series. Through all of this she somehow endures, and her story helps us to rediscover the richness and terror of the commonplace, as well as the pain, beauty - and humor - of being alive.

About this title

Review:

'Manawaka is a whole literary world ... The Fire-Dwellers pursues the pulp of present day [...] but it is proof of Margaret Laurence's genius that out of such stuff she makes something deep and rich and complex' Liz Lochhead.

About the Author:

Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) grew up in the small prairie town of Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada. Recognised as one of the greatest Canadian writers, her masterwork is the Manawaka sequence: five novels of which The Fire-Dwellers is the third. The first, The Stone Angel, and the second, A Jest of God, are both available from Apollo.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0226469514
• ISBN 13: 9780226469515
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288