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Because a Fire Was in My Head
Lynn Stegner
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Description for Because a Fire Was in My Head
Paperback. Self-centred, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, Kate Riley is all too real but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. Kate is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated. Series: Flyover Fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3404 x 18. Weight in Grams: 345.
Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too real but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. When we first encounter her, Kate is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated. Sobered by the gravity of the procedure, she commences a journey of memory that takes us back to the Saskatchewan village where she grew up and to the singular event that altered her forever and ... Read more
Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too real but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. When we first encounter her, Kate is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated. Sobered by the gravity of the procedure, she commences a journey of memory that takes us back to the Saskatchewan village where she grew up and to the singular event that altered her forever and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Flyover Fiction
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803225145
SKU
V9780803225145
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Ref
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About Lynn Stegner
Lynn Stegner is the author of four novels, including Undertow, Fata Morgana, and Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. The manuscript for Because a Fire Was in My Head won the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Award for Best Novel of 2005. The book became a Literary Ventures Selection as well as a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. Stegner currently teaches ... Read more
Reviews for Because a Fire Was in My Head
“Stunning. . . . The poetic detail of Stegner’s sentences—not to mention her wanton protagonist—is reminiscent of the novels of John Updike. . . . Because a Fire Was in My Head, her most ambitious novel so far, ought to attract for Stegner the wider audience she so richly deserves.”—Julia Scheeres, New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “A novel ... Read more