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- The Fire-Dwellers (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
- The Fire-Dwellers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Third Edition)
- The Fire-Dwellers (Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition)
- The Fire-Dwellers (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
See Also
- Margaret Laurence (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
- Margaret Laurence (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
- Margaret Laurence (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- Margaret Laurence (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Margaret Laurence (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Vancouver and the fictional prairie town of Manawaka
- Characters: Stacey Cameron MacAindra, Clifford (Mac) MacAindra, Katie MacAindra, Buckle Fennick, Luke Venturi, Matthew MacAindra
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Novel
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Mothers, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Communication, Marriage, Dreams, God, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Adultery, Canada or Canadians, Small-town life, Lifestyles, Middle age, Homemakers, 1960's
- Locales: Canada, North America, Vancouver, Canada
The Novel
The “doom everywhere” message that Stacey Cameron Macaindra, the protagonist of The Fire-Dwellers, allows to permeate her outlook on life is a projection of the inner turmoil she is experiencing. The real inferno of the novel burns in Stacey’s agitated consciousness. Stacey struggles to get a grip on herself, to accept her inadequacies, to accept that her family is never going to be like a Norman Rockwell painting, and to accept that she must aspire to represent sanity in what she sees as an insane world. The omniscient narrator gives credence...
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