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The Resource How to set a fire and why : a novel, Jesse Ball
How to set a fire and why : a novel, Jesse Ball
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The item How to set a fire and why : a novel, Jesse Ball represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in District of Columbia Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 19 library branches.
Resource Information
The item How to set a fire and why : a novel, Jesse Ball represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in District of Columbia Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 19 library branches.
- Summary
- "How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her way through the world with only a book, a Zippo lighter, and a pocket full of stolen licorice, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother in The Home, avoiding the landlord who hates her, and following the only rule that makes any sense: Don't Do Things You Aren't Proud Of. When Lucia starts at Whistler High it seems no different from the schools that came before: girls play field hockey, chasing the ball like dogs, the school psychologist has beanbag chairs in her office, and detention means sitting silently surrounded by stupid people ("I am a veteran of detention"). But when Lucia discovers a secret Arson Club, she will do anything to be a part of it. With a biting wit and striking intelligence that she can't fully hide, Lucia animates her small-town life: the parties at an abandoned water park, visits to the 24-hour donut shop where her friend Lana's cousin works, the little island in the middle of a medical park where kids go to drink. As Lucia's fascination with the Arson Club grows, her chronicle becomes a riveting story of family, loss, misguided friendship, and destruction"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101870570
- Label
- How to set a fire and why : a novel
- Title
- How to set a fire and why
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jesse Ball
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her way through the world with only a book, a Zippo lighter, and a pocket full of stolen licorice, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother in The Home, avoiding the landlord who hates her, and following the only rule that makes any sense: Don't Do Things You Aren't Proud Of. When Lucia starts at Whistler High it seems no different from the schools that came before: girls play field hockey, chasing the ball like dogs, the school psychologist has beanbag chairs in her office, and detention means sitting silently surrounded by stupid people ("I am a veteran of detention"). But when Lucia discovers a secret Arson Club, she will do anything to be a part of it. With a biting wit and striking intelligence that she can't fully hide, Lucia animates her small-town life: the parties at an abandoned water park, visits to the 24-hour donut shop where her friend Lana's cousin works, the little island in the middle of a medical park where kids go to drink. As Lucia's fascination with the Arson Club grows, her chronicle becomes a riveting story of family, loss, misguided friendship, and destruction"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ball, Jesse
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.A596
- LC item number
- H69 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dysfunctional families
- Teenage girls
- Pyromania
- Arson
- Label
- How to set a fire and why : a novel, Jesse Ball
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn908517375
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101870570
- Lccn
- 2015017989
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908517375
- Label
- How to set a fire and why : a novel, Jesse Ball
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn908517375
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101870570
- Lccn
- 2015017989
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908517375
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