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Fire in the Blood
Irène Némirovsky
#UC2952
Paperback, 138 pages; 2008
$12.95
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When older people get together there is something unflappable about them; you can sense they’ve tasted all the heavy, bitter, spicy food of life, extracted its poisons, and will now spend ten or fifteen years in a state of perfect equilibrium and enviable morality. They are happy with themselves. They have renounced the vain attempts of youth to adapt the world to their desires. They have failed and, now, they can relax.
Written between 1938 and 1942, this recently discovered novella from the author of Suite Française is set in a rural French village in the years preceding World War II. A story of youthful passions—and their consequences—Fire in the Blood is filled with love and scandal. The old man who narrates the tale was wild in his younger years, but now values peace and quiet above all else, so there's a significant calm and reflective quality to his accounts of all the excitement.
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