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Beanland Rachel - The House Is On Fire - Hardcover
Beanland Rachel - The House Is On Fire - Hardcover
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Description: A wildly entertaining (NPR) gripping (The Washington Post) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night from the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever. Richmond Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season the General Assembly is in session and many of Virginia's gentleman planters along with their wives and children have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater the Charleston - based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church. On the night after Christmas the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third - floor boxes sits newly widowed Sally Henry Campbell who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away in the colored gallery Cecily Patterson doesn t give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four - hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to worse. Backstage young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that if he can impress the theater's managers he ll be offered a permanent job with the company. And on the other side of town blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater but he ll have to buy her freedom first. When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance Sally Cecily Jack and Gilbert make a series of split - second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire as news of the disaster spreads across the United States the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined. Based on the true story of Richmond's theater fire The House Is on Fire is a stunning (Jeannette Walls New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle) all - consuming exploration (E! News) that offers proof that sometimes in the midst of great tragedy we are offered our most precious and fleeting chances at redemption.
Title: The House Is On Fire
Author(s): Beanland Rachel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982186142
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: A wildly entertaining (NPR) gripping (The Washington Post) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night from the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever. Richmond Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season the General Assembly is in session and many of Virginia's gentleman planters along with their wives and children have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater the Charleston - based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church. On the night after Christmas the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third - floor boxes sits newly widowed Sally Henry Campbell who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away in the colored gallery Cecily Patterson doesn t give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four - hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to worse. Backstage young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that if he can impress the theater's managers he ll be offered a permanent job with the company. And on the other side of town blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater but he ll have to buy her freedom first. When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance Sally Cecily Jack and Gilbert make a series of split - second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire as news of the disaster spreads across the United States the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined. Based on the true story of Richmond's theater fire The House Is on Fire is a stunning (Jeannette Walls New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle) all - consuming exploration (E! News) that offers proof that sometimes in the midst of great tragedy we are offered our most precious and fleeting chances at redemption.
Title: The House Is On Fire
Author(s): Beanland Rachel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982186142
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
