num_pages: 507
description: Three Americans converge in an Italian village shortly after World War II. One is a naive Southern lawyer. One is a rough-edged artist with a fatal penchant for alcohol. And one is a charming and priapic aristocrat who may be the closest thing possible to pure wickedness in an age that has banished the devil along with God. Out of their collective alchemy William Styron has crafted an electrifying and deeply unsettling novel of rape, murder, and suicide -- a work with a Dostoevskian insight into the dreadful persuasiveness of evil.
language: English
title: Set This House on Fire
titlecomplete: Set This House on Fire
characters: Cass Kinsolving, Francesca, Peter Leverett, Luigi, Mason Flagg, Poppy Kinsolving, Rosemarie
genres: Fiction, American, Italy, The United States Of America, Crime, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 971
places: Charleston, South Carolina, South Carolina, Sambuco, Italy
publisher: Vintage