Kate Wenner

Setting Fires (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

So explains Annie Fishman Waldmas, who in middle age enjoys a fulfilling New York existence as a documentary filmmaker, wife, and mother of two. Life is good. And even if the whole Fishman clan -- Annie's siblings, her divorced parents -- shares a marked skittishness about family intimacy, they still remain connected, if only in the marginal way that's become the signature of modern living. Setting Fires is the gripping story of what happens when a pair of phone calls forever shatter Annie's contentment. The first brings news that Annie's country house in Connecticut has been destroyed by fire. Not just fire, but arson -- in an area where two other Jewish-owned buildings recently burned down. Bringing far worse news is the second call, notifying Annie that her father -- the family patriarch dedicated to overcoming a life of shame -- may be dying. In an era of introspective fiction, Kate Wenner's eagerness to explore societal issues, such as anti-Semitism, makes Setting Fires a startling, and singular, debut.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743216319
• Artikelnr.: 37835035

Autorenporträt

Kate Wenner was raised in California during the 1950s, graduated from Harvard, and traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, East Africa, and Central and South America before moving to New York, where she spent fourteen years as an award-winning producer for ABC's 20/20. Wenner is the author of the novel Setting Fires and a memoir, Shamba Letu: An American Girl's Adventures in Africa. She lives in New York City and the Berkshires with her husband, artist Gil Eisner, and their two children.