Fire / by George R. Stewart ; introduction by Emma Rothschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, George R., 1895-1980, author.

Contributor:

Rothschild, Emma, 1948- writer of introduction.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest fires--Fiction.

Forest fires.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Fiction.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).

Genre:

Nature fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, 2024.

Summary:

"From the author of Storm, a breathtaking novel about a raging fire and the path of destruction and change it leaves in its wake. Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire - smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake. Firefighters and lookouts, forest rangers and smokejumpers - as well as animals in the forest, many of them the bewildered victims of the blaze, and all the varied tress and bushes there - are characters of this realistic story"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Stewart, George R., 1895-1980. Fire

ISBN:

9781681378473

1681378477

OCLC:

1410454465