num_pages: 567
description: The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil.
language: English
title: Set This House on Fire
titlecomplete: Set This House on Fire
characters: Luigi, Rosemarie, Mason Flagg, Peter Leverett, Poppy Kinsolving, Cass Kinsolving, Francesca
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Italy, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 971
places: South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, Italy, Sambuco
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random