1997, ISBN: 9780679747307

US: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1997. Paperback. Good. In the 1890s, "Lower California" is a land adrift, peopled by Indians and h alf-breeds, and now by the French as well. The Indi… More...

US: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1997. Paperback. Good. In the 1890s, "Lower California" is a land adrift, peopled by Indians and h alf-breeds, and now by the French as well. The Indians are indifferent to W estern notions of time and industry. The French, on the other hand, are suf ficiently meticulous to import 2,348 pieces of cast iron to the desolate mi ning town of Santa Sofia, there to be assembled into a church under the sup ervision of a disciple of the renowned Gustave Eiffel. This wildly impractical venture is the starting premise for this new novel by the author of The Five Gates of Hell, a writer the Washington Post has c alled "a virtuoso of the hallucinatory." As Theophile Valence attempts to r e-create Paris in an outpost of hell--and his wife, Suzanne, arouses the do omed passions of an American prospector and a Mexican army officer--Air and Fire fuses adventure and romance into a magnificent tale of conflicting pa ssions and cultures. "Absorbing . . . More than anything else, it is the prose oin which Thomson evokes [his character's] mental life that, with the concentration of a magnifying glass, kindles this novel's fire."--The New Yorker., Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1997, 2.5<

1997, ISBN: 9780679747307

Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1997. Good. In the 1890s, "Lower California" is a land adrift, peopled by Indians and h alf-breeds, and now by the French as well. The Indians are indiffe… More...

Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1997. Good. In the 1890s, "Lower California" is a land adrift, peopled by Indians and h alf-breeds, and now by the French as well. The Indians are indifferent to W estern notions of time and industry. The French, on the other hand, are suf ficiently meticulous to import 2,348 pieces of cast iron to the desolate mi ning town of Santa Sofia, there to be assembled into a church under the sup ervision of a disciple of the renowned Gustave Eiffel. This wildly impractical venture is the starting premise for this new novel by the author of The Five Gates of Hell, a writer the Washington Post has c alled "a virtuoso of the hallucinatory." As Theophile Valence attempts to r e-create Paris in an outpost of hell--and his wife, Suzanne, arouses the do omed passions of an American prospector and a Mexican army officer--Air and Fire fuses adventure and romance into a magnificent tale of conflicting pa ssions and cultures. "Absorbing . . . More than anything else, it is the prose oin which Thomson evokes [his character's] mental life that, with the concentration of a magnifying glass, kindles this novel's fire."--The New Yorker., Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1997, 2.5<

1995, ISBN: 9780679747307

New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0679747303 light edge wear; First Vintage printing; In the 1890s, 'Lower California' is a land adrift, peopled by In… More...

New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0679747303 light edge wear; First Vintage printing; In the 1890s, 'Lower California' is a land adrift, peopled by Indians and half-breeds, and now by the French as well. The Indians are indifferent to Western notions of time and industry. The French, on the other hand, are sufficiently meticulous to import 2,348 pieces of cast iron to the desolate mining town of Santa Sofia, there to be assembled into a church under the supervision of a disciple of the renowned Gustave Eiffel., Vintage Books, 1995, 3<