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Also by Brock Clarke:

Exley, October 2010
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, September 2007
Hardcover

AN ARSONIST'S GUIDE TO WRITERS' HOMES IN NEW ENGLAND
By: Brock Clarke

Algonquin Books
September 2007
On Sale: September 4, 2007
305 pages
ISBN: 1565125517
EAN: 9781565125513
Hardcover
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As a teenager, it was never Sam Pulsifer's intention to torch an American landmark, and he certainly never planned to kill two people in the blaze. To this day, he still wonders why that young couple was upstairs in bed in the Emily Dickinson House after hours.

After serving ten years in prison for his crime, Sam is determined to put the past behind him. He fifinishes college, begins a career, falls in love, gets married, has two adorable kids, and buys a home. His low-profifile life is chugging along quite nicely until the past comes crashing through his front door.

As the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even a replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, go up in smoke, Sam becomes the number one suspect. Finding the real culprit is the only way to clear his name—but sometimes there's a terrible price to pay for the truth.

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is a tour de force—a novel disguised as a memoir, a mystery that cloaks itself in humor, and an artful piece of literature that bites the hand that breeds it.

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