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Summary:

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon, and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood--and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate.In Night of Fire, the passions and obsessions in a dying house loom and shift, from those of the hallucinating drug addict in the basement to the landlord training his rooftop telescope on the night skies. As the novel progresses, the tenants' diverse stories take us through an African refugee camp, Greek Orthodox monasteries, and the cremation-grounds of India. Haunting the edges of their lives are memories. Will these remembrances be consumed forever by the flames? Or can they survive in some form?Night of Fire is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself.

Author/Creator:

Thubron, Colin, 1939- , author

Contributors:

Page, Michael (Michael J.) , narrator

Brilliance Audio (Firm)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Night of fire: a novel [by Thubron, C.]

Subjects:

Landlord and tenant — Fiction

Apartment houses — Fiction

Fires — Fiction

Landlord and tenant

Apartment houses

Fires

Genres:

Audiobooks

Fiction

Performers:

Read by Michael Page.

General Notes:

Title from container.

Physical Description:

9 audio discs (11 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

ACD 596

ISBNs:

1536617113
9781536617115
9781536617139
153661713X
9781445065571
1445065576

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 9781536617115
Publisher Number, Blackstone Audiobooks: 10c5ao

OCLC Numbers:

965918317