A walking fire
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Author
Publication
1994 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
63,500 words, Guess
Page Count
254 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1424634M
- ISBN-100791420078
- OCLC Control Number42854862
- OCLC Control Number28797870
- OCLC Control Numberwalkingfirenovel00mine
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number93035569
- LibraryThing4330101
- Goodreads1966330
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3563.I4647 W35 1994
Description
"Here come a walking fire," the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walking across a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall, 1988, as Cora, an anti-war activist, returns to the U.S. from Canada where she has lived for twenty years. A college student in the mid-sixties, Cora becomes politically curious, then joins the anti-war movement. Based on King Lear and written from the point of view of Cordelia, the book weighs definitions of patriotism and loyalty. In her return as in her past, Cora is testing borders between suffering and virtue, idealism and commitment, self and family, and exploring possibilities of change.
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Series Statement
- SUNY series, the margins of literature
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