The Memory of Fire

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2000
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Annotation

Authoritarian dystopia with eutopian anarchist enclaves called nodes or cruces. After one dedicated to the creative life and inhabited by artists, musicians, and writers is destroyed on the coast of South America, the protagonist flees to a similar one in Oakland, California. There she attracts the attention of the authorities. Most of the novel is concerned with the dystopia.

Pagination
465 pp.
Published Date

2000

Publisher
Bantam Books
Place Published
New York
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ISBN Number
9780553578867
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2000 Foy, George [Michelsen] (b. 1952). The Memory of Fire. A Novel. New York: Bantam Books. 465 pp. CU-Riv, Merril, MoU-St

Authoritarian dystopia with eutopian anarchist enclaves called nodes or cruces. After one dedicated to the creative life and inhabited by artists, musicians, and writers is destroyed on the coast of South America, the protagonist flees to a similar one in Oakland, California. There she attracts the attention of the authorities. Most of the novel is concerned with the dystopia.

Holding Institutions

CU-Riv, Merril, MoU-St

Author Note

(b. 1952)