His last fire
By: Alix Nathan
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781908946881; 9781908946317
Subjects: Fiction; Historical; FICTION
Description: His Last Fire is historical fiction with a contemporary feel, meticulously researched, bursting with a rich and arcane vocabulary, and written in an engaging present. A stunning new voice emerges with these strange and gem-like stories that are a riot through the revolutionary alehouses, printshops, and pleasure-houses of late-18th-century London. Meet Jack Cockshutt, arsonist by trade, returning to rescue his victims and profit from their relief, finding the woman who just might save him. Meet the beauty who castigates her customers with passages from.
Table of contents: title: His last fire; his last fire; the play's the thing; flask between the lips; revolutionary; shell: the pedlar's tale; shell: the sailor's tale; eels; lapland; a tulip sky; what was left to know; spy; lascia ch'io pianga; mad; forgiven; shriven; from the life; an experiment: above; an experiment: below; no applause; notes; acknowledgements; author bio; the flight of sarah battle; copyright information.