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

A Novel
By Brock Clarke
305 pages
Hardback   (also available in Paperback)
ISBN: 1565125517
ISBN13: 9781565125513
$23.95(US)

 

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Endorsements
"Brock Clarke is our generation's Richard Ford, destined to be as influential and as celebrated. And his arsonist, Sam Pulsifer, is an Everyman surburban nomad, a literary misadventurer who is as insightful and doomed as he is heartbreakingly hilarious. I love this book"—Heidi Julavits, author of The Uses of Enchantment

"This is a sad, funny, absurd, and incredibly moving novel. Its comic mournnfulness, its rigorous, breakneck narrative, delight. . . . Clarke [has] given us a wonderful book about life, literature, and the anxieties of their influence."—Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land

"While I was reading this dark, funny, tragic novel, I would look at the people around me and feel sorry for them because they weren't occupying the same world I was; they weren't living as I was, inside the compelling, off-kilter atmosphere of Brock Clarke's pages. This is the best book I’ve read in a long time." — Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel