A Walking Fire Paperback - 1994

Name: A Walking Fire: A Novel (SUNY Series, Margins of Literature) (SUNY series, The Margins of Literature)
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Author: Miner, Valerie
ISBN: 9780791420089

by Valerie Miner

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From the publisher

Here comes 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.

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.

Details

Title A Walking Fire
Author Valerie Miner
Binding Paperback
Edition Second Printing
Pages 254
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher State University of New York Press, Albany, New York
Date 1994-06
ISBN 9780791420089 / 0791420086
Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
Dimensions 8.99 x 5.9 x 0.58 in (22.83 x 14.99 x 1.47 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Fathers and daughters
Library of Congress Catalog Number 93035569
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

Citations

Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/1994, Page 354
Publishers Weekly, 06/06/1994, Page 61

About the author

Valerie Miner's other books of fiction include Trespassing and Other Stories; All Good Women; Winter's Edge; Murder in the English Department; Movement; and Blood Sisters. She has also published a non-fiction book, Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Rportage, co-edited Competition: A Feminist Taboo?, and co-authored Her Own Women; Tales I Tell My Mother; and More Tales. She is Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota.