{"product_id":"air-fire-paperback","title":"Air \u0026 Fire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRupert Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis wildly impractical venture is the starting premise for this new novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Five Gates of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, a writer the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e has called \"a virtuoso of the hallucinatory.\" As Theophile Valence attempts to re-create Paris in an outpost of hell--and his wife, Suzanne, arouses the doomed passions of an American prospector and a Mexican army officer--\u003ci\u003eAir and Fire\u003c\/i\u003e fuses adventure and romance into a magnificent tale of conflicting passions and cultures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRupert Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, and studied Medieval History and Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. His highly acclaimed works include novels \u003ci\u003eSecrecy, The Five Gates of Hell, Death of a Murderer, The Book of Revelation, Soft!, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Insult, \u003c\/i\u003e and a memoir, \u003ci\u003e This Party's Got to Stop\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2015, Thomson was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.43 x 5.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228292759801,"sku":"9780679747307","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WkhZd1pMaVpDVTBUbERaSWo2NG5HZz09.webp?v=1768290394","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/air-fire-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}