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

A Novel

By Brock Clarke

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| Hardcover | 9781565125513

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As a teenager, it was never Sam Pulsifer's intention to torch an American landmark, and he certainly never planned to kill two people in the blaze. To this day, he still wonders why that young couple was upstairs in bed in the Emily Dickinson House after hours.

After serving ten years in prContinue

As a teenager, it was never Sam Pulsifer's intention to torch an American landmark, and he certainly never planned to kill two people in the blaze. To this day, he still wonders why that young couple was upstairs in bed in the Emily Dickinson House after hours.

After serving ten years in prison for his crime, Sam is determined to put the past behind him. He fifinishes college, begins a career, falls in love, gets married, has two adorable kids, and buys a home. His low-profifile life is chugging along quite nicely until the past comes crashing through his front door.

As the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even a replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, go up in smoke, Sam becomes the number one suspect. Finding the real culprit is the only way to clear his name—but sometimes there's a terrible price to pay for the truth.

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is a tour de force—a novel disguised as a memoir, a mystery that cloaks itself in humor, and an artful piece of literature that bites the hand that breeds it.

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

    Sam Pulsifer burns down the Emily Dickinson house in Amherst, killing two people in the process. He serves 10 years in prison, gets married, has two children and moves to a suburb outside Amherst, where his past, not surprisingly, promptly catches up ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England By Brock Clarke

    In his arrestingly titled second novel, Brock Clarke invites us to ponder the spell literature can cast and the sometimes incendiary power of books. An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is a tenderhearted black comedy that's reminisce ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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