Set This House On Fire
$53.21
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2001
Summary
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.
The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg.
Three events - murder, rape…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285557 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009928555X |
| Author: | William Styron |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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Critics Review
Immediately impressive…the sense of the striking scene…the fine ear for dialogue, the sharp observation of cities and scenery and interiors.”
– The New York Times Book Review
Three Americans converge in an Italian village shortly after World War II. One is a naive Southern lawyer. One is a rough-edged artist with a fatal penchant for alcohol. And one is a charming and priapic aristocrat who may be the closest thing possible to pure wickedness in an age that has banished the devil along with God. Out of their collective alchemy William Styron has crafted an electrifying and deeply unsettling novel of rape, murder, and suicide – a work with a Dostoevskian insight into the dreadful persuasiveness of evil.
William Styron
Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut.
He is the author of The Long March, Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, and Sophie’s Choice. He has also published Darkness Visible, the remarkable story of his descent into depression, the collection This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, and A Tidewater Morning.
William Styron died in 2006.
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