The Burning: A Novel - Hardcover

Legendre, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031615380X ISBN 13: 9780316153805

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2006

Synopsis

In an engrossing novel about fate, luck, and obsession, a struggling academic from Philadelphia marries a beautifully dangerous Vegas blackjack dealer, and when his controversial theory about economics is put to the test, his entire life is put on the line.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Legendre received degrees in English & Economics and in Literature before gaining his MFA degree in Creative Writing. He taught Creative Writing, Literature & Communication at a college in Arizona until 2001, when he emigrated with his family to Edinburgh.

From Booklist:

Logan Smith has just finished his doctoral dissertation in economics and decides to unwind in Vegas. There he meets beautiful blackjack dealer Dallas, who gives the naive Logan a few instructive tips on the game and, later, further guidance in the bedroom. Less than two years later, the newlyweds settle in Arizona, where Logan has been hired to teach. He also devotes himself to refining his radical challenge to neoclassical economics. As he becomes absorbed by his work and his intellectually stimulating conversations with an alluring astrophysicist, the volatile, complicated Dallas develops a serious gambling problem. In this remarkably assured debut, Legendre weds a provocative novel of ideas to an affecting story of romantic trials and tribulations. It is a testament to his considerable narrative skill that he makes equally compelling reading out of scenes depicting the academic debate among dueling economists and scenes of a desperate Dallas gambling away the couple's life savings. Muscular prose and heady intellectual banter combine in this exceptionally fine debut. Joanne Wilkinson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 031615380X
• ISBN 13: 9780316153805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368