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The Arsonist: The brilliant novel from the bestselling author of Monogamy

The Arsonist: The brilliant novel from the bestselling author of Monogamy

by SueMiller (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

Fleeing the end of an affair, and troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley comes 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? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognise her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, and she tentatively gets to know the new owner of the local newspaper, another house burns, and then another. These frightening events open the deep social fault lines in the town and raise questions about how and where one ought to live, and what it really means to lead a fulfilling life.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 03 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 1408857227
ISBN 13: 9781408857229
Book Overview: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Senator's Wife, a sophisticated and subtle novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist wreaks havoc in a small town

Media Reviews
An eloquent chronicler of the complexities of ordinary relationships, whose informal language belies the depths of her insights ... Miller nails the contradictory emotions and desires that are responsible for people so often bypassing the seemingly easy road to happiness. ... A satisfying read * Independent *
In another writer's hands The Arsonist would be a thriller, but Miller is concerned with deeper mysteries of human motivation ... Miller has been compared to Anne Tyler, and shares her uncanny compass for the contrary virtuosic description of a house devoured by fire reveals the range of her talent, but she never writes for effect * Sunday Telegraph *
`Miller's thoughtful, searching prose fills in all the background details, and her vivid characters are utterly believable. Brilliant * Kate Saunders, The Times *
Miller writes with tremendous subtlety and perception * Daily Mail *
The Arsonist is full of Ms. Miller's signature intelligence about people caught between moral responsibility and a hunger for self-realisation * New York Times *
Miller writes with grace and poise, crafting an examination of love and loss that is both understated and emotionally charged * Guardian *
It is the slow atrophy of Alfie's intellect, and the responses it elicits from those around him, which lies at the heart of the novel, and which Miller handles with a deft acuity * Observer *
Author Bio
Sue Miller was born in Chicago in 1943. She is the bestselling author of ten previous novels including The Good Mother, The Distinguished Guest, the Oprah Book Club selection While I Was Gone, Lost in the Forest, the Richard & Judy choice The Senator's Wife, The Lake Shore Limited and the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father. Sue Miller lives in Boston, Massachusetts.