From the rear cover
"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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- Title A Walking Fire
- Author Valerie Miner
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 254
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher State University of New York Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1994
- ISBN 9780791420072 / 0791420078
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.23 x 0.82 in (23.60 x 15.82 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Fathers and daughters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93035569
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 06/06/1994, Page 61
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