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<p>Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two&nbsp;novellas are linked so skillfully&nbsp;that&nbsp;they&nbsp;achieve the intensity of&nbsp;a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail&nbsp;on&nbsp;separate but equally compelling quests. In The Fires, Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan to carry out her husband's final wish&#8212;to be cremated&#8212;only to find herself entirely&nbsp;at sea in the strange new reality of the former Soviet republic, while in The Exorcism,&nbsp;Tom Swanson begins to make sense of his life&nbsp;when he retrieves his angry daughter from her exclusive New England college after her expulsion for setting fire to a grand piano.<p></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>In these two novellas, Cheuse (<I>The Grandmothers' Club</I>; <I>Lost and Old Rivers</I>; etc.) dissects the aftermath of two very different deaths: one, of an American businessman traveling in Russia; the other, a mother, jazz pianist and drug addict. In the first novella, The Fires, a museum worker named Gina learns that her husband, Paul, died in a car accident while en route to Uzbekistan. Gina travels to Russia to ensure her husband gets cremated, per h

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Author

Cheuse, Alan; Cheuse, Alan. Exorcism

Publisher

Santa Fe Writers Project/IPG

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780977679911

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.49 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13