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Set This House On Fire

by William Styron · 1960

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The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil.

Genre
crimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1960s1960sMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of thisItalyItalyMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 567 pages

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