Ebook {Epub PDF} How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball

JESSE BALL (–). Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently the novel How to Set a Fire and Why. His works have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen languages/5(64).  · JESSE BALL (–). Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently the novel How to Set a Fire and Why. His works have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen www.doorway.ru  · JESSE BALL (–). Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently the novel How to Set a Fire and Why. His works have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen languages/5(66).

How to Set a Fire and Why is Jesse Ball's most accessible novel yet; after Silence Once Begun and A Cure for Suicide, the pyrotechnics on display here will dazzle. 'Halfway between Catcher in the Rye and Fight Club, but funnier than either.' Weekly Review. Written in the style of a diary, Jesse Ball's How to Set a Fire and Why tells the story of Lucia Stanton, teenage anarchist and aspiring arsonist. She's halfway through high school, and was just transferred to a new district after a violent incident transpired between Lucia's pencil and a former classmate's neck. "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.

How to Set a Fire and Why Quotes Showing of “We deceive ourselves into thinking life is long, but fire reminds us—it is a flickering. Life is a flickering—and then it is gone. So, we must make the most of it.”. ― Jesse Ball, How to Set a Fire and Why. 6 likes. Like. How to Set a Fire and Why, Ball’s new novel, adds to this world an unexpected dimension. It is set, for one, in the present day, in a recognizably American town. The characters do not have names. Jesse Ball. At her new school, Lucia learns of a secret organization called the Sonar Club (SONAR = ARSON), a group for “people who are fed up with wealth and property and want to burn everything down.”. As Lucia gradually makes her way deeper into this organization, she sets off a chain of events that will push her rigid code to its.