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Here come a walking fire the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walkingacross a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall 1988 as Cora anantiwar activist returns to the U.S. from Canada where she has lived fortwenty years. A college student in the midsixties Cora becomes politicallycurious then joins the antiwar movement. Based on King Lear and written fromthe point of view of Cordelia the book weighs definitions of patriotism andloyalty. In her return as in her past Cora is testing borders betweensuffering and virtue idealism and commitment self and family and exploringpossibilities of change. «
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