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Set This House on Fire
by William Styron
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House, 1960. VG/VG-. 1st/1st. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with No writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Aging to front and back end papers. Spot fading to red dyed top pages. Dust jacket is unclipped ($5.95) with small chips to ends and extremities and rubbing along folds. Former sticker residue to lower back cover. Protected in a Brodart cover. The critically revered, immensely gifted, Pulitzer Prize-winning author's third book.
Set This House on Fire is a story of evil and redemption involving three American men whose paths converge on a film shoot in Italy at the close of the 1940s. Shortly after Peter Leverett meets Mason Flagg in a small Italian village, a woman is found raped and murdered. The investigation soon centers on the mysterious circumstances involving Mason and an alcoholic painter named Cass Kinsolving. Peter's attempts to uncover the true events of that fateful night will reveal the profound wickedness of one man and lead another on a path to absolution. This novel features the rich prose, penetrating psychological insight, and moral complexity that define Styron's works. Haunting and provocative, Set This House on Fire is a riveting exploration of sin and atonement set against the lushly crafted backdrops of Europe and the American South.
Set This House on Fire is a story of evil and redemption involving three American men whose paths converge on a film shoot in Italy at the close of the 1940s. Shortly after Peter Leverett meets Mason Flagg in a small Italian village, a woman is found raped and murdered. The investigation soon centers on the mysterious circumstances involving Mason and an alcoholic painter named Cass Kinsolving. Peter's attempts to uncover the true events of that fateful night will reveal the profound wickedness of one man and lead another on a path to absolution. This novel features the rich prose, penetrating psychological insight, and moral complexity that define Styron's works. Haunting and provocative, Set This House on Fire is a riveting exploration of sin and atonement set against the lushly crafted backdrops of Europe and the American South.
Synopsis
Set This House on Fire, is a novel by William Styron, set in Italy centred on the themes of evil and redemption. The narrator, Leverett, is a lawyer from the South, but the story is primarily told through the recollections of its protagonist, a troubled artist named Cass.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2493
- Title
- Set This House on Fire
- Author
- William Styron
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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