A review by pinknantucket
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel by Brock Clarke

3.0

This was a lot of fun, though I did feel Sam Pulsifer (the accidental and somewhat hapless arsonist of the title) was treated somewhat unfairly by fate, in the end. I love the idea that there are hundreds of people all around the world who secretly wish for the houses of famous writers to be destroyed, for various reasons. I particularly liked Sam's Mum. And the letter writers he encounters. I don' think you'd regret spending time with this book.

My copy: Bought second-hand from Savers (for 49c). Whoever bought it first bought it from the Brunswick St Bookstore for $22.95. I'd happily read it for that price too.