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It may not have been Sam Pulsifers intention to torch the Emily Dickinson House, but he served 10 years in prison for his crime. After his release, the past comes crashing through his front door as the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne go up in smoke. nFunny, profound . . . a seductive book with a payoff on every page.--People n A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinsons house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. n n In the league of such contemporary classics as A Confederacy of Dunces and The World According to Garp, An Arsonists Guide to Writers Homes in New England is an utterly original story about truth and honesty, life and the imagination.n
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