Air and Fire (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rupert Thomson
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1890’s
- Setting: Baja, Mexico
- Principal Characters: Suzanne Valence, Théophile Valence, Wilson Pharaoh, Captain Félix Montoya
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Extrasensory perception or powers, Adventure, Mexico or Mexicans, Architecture or architects, Signs or symbols
- Locales: Baja California, Mexico
Of Rupert Thomson’s novels, Dreams of Leaving (1988) and Five Gates of Hell (1991), the latter best foreshadows the highly literary characters and style of Rupert Thomson’s Air and Fire. The structure of this novel, moreover, proceeds in the framework of a three-month period and through a balance of obsessions.
The focal protagonist of Air and Fire is Suzanne Valence, for it is through her that one is meant to judge the rationalism of her husband, Théophile, as a failure, and it is because of her that the characters Wilson Pharaoh and Félix...
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