false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188471569m/733462.jpg 733462 12 As a teenager, it was never Sam Pulsifer's intention to torch an American landmark, and he certainly never planned to kill two people in the blaze. To this day, he still wonders why that young couple was upstairs in bed in the Emily Dickinson House after hours.<br> <br> After serving 10 years in prison for his crime, Sam is determined to put the past behind him. He finishes college, begins a career, falls in love, gets married, has two adorable kids, and buys a home. His low-profile life is chugging along quite nicely until the past comes crashing through his front door.<br><Br> As the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even a replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, go up in smoke, Sam becomes the number one suspect. Finding the real culprit is the only way to clear his name&#8212;but sometimes there's a terrible price to pay for the truth. <br> <Br> <i>An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England</i> is a tour de force&#8212;a novel disguised as a memoir, a mystery that cloaks itself in humor, and an artful piece of literature that bites the hand that breeds it. 1893490 4 9 2007 An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England total:2052|5:144|4:526|3:718|2:450|1:214| 2052 6092 3395 692 1 11 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Sep 11 13:32:18 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 02 22:22:35 -0800 2007
But, considering it took countless small bursts of very reluctant reading over the course of the entire fall to get through it, I have to classify this one as a total bust. Even more disappo...more...]]> 2 7 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 22:29:53 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 10:28:57 -0700 2007
It started out well enough: Sam Pulsifer, a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, "accidentally" burned down the Emily Dickinson house when he was eighteen. He has, since then, served his time ...more...]]> 1 4 false false Tue Aug 19 04:44:29 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 06:18:57 -0700 2008 once was too many saving grace in it all, but I never once found myself rooting f...more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 21:20:25 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 20:01:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 17:58:02 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 18:10:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 22:35:43 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 23:04:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 09:48:54 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 09:54:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 14:30:51 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 16:09:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 23:17:26 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 15:50:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 14:44:03 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 09:09:39 -0800 2008 Confederacy of Dunces, Catch-22, and The World According to Garp . This does not match my experience- really, as far as I'm concerned, the only way these books are the same is that they all consist of pages filled with printed English words, bound on a s...more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 19:46:38 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 12:06:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 00:49:59 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 01:38:50 -0800 2008
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Unlike those writers, Clarke writes in a traditional style - past tense - and with some sort of plot.

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Sam Pulsifer is a bumbler. He accidentally burns down the Emily Dickenson house--killing two people and he accidentally fall...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 06:36:34 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 19:49:58 -0700 2008 you want to read such a story? Would you read it because it was true, or...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 13 22:08:50 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 22:09:51 -0700 2008
On one level, this book is a satire on the literary world and its pretensions. The author even ma...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Feb 11 16:11:47 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 16:12:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 10:06:06 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 17:38:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 12:52:43 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 12:53:48 -0700 2007
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