A walking fire
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Valerie Miner.
Series: SUNY series, the margins of literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- Fiction.; Women political activists -- Fiction.; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Oregon -- Fiction.
Description: "Here come a walking fire," the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walking across a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall, 1988, as Cora, an anti-war activist, returns to the U.S. from Canada where she has lived for twenty years. A college student in the mid-sixties, Cora becomes politically curious, then joins the anti-war movement. Based on King Lear and written from the point of view of Cordelia, the book weighs definitions of patriotism and loyalty.

In her return as in her past, Cora is testing borders between suffering and virtue, idealism and commitment, self and family, and exploring possibilities of change.
Notes: A retelling of the King Lear story.