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Charlie Johnson in the Flames

by Michael Ignatieff

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ISBN13: 9780802117557
ISBN10: 0802117554
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Charlie Johnson is an American journalist working for a British news agency somewhere in the Balkans. He believes that over the course of a long career he has seen everything, but suddenly he finds himself more than simply a witness. A woman who has been sheltering Charlie and his crew is doused in gasoline and set on fire. As she stumbles, burning, down the road, Charlie dashes from hiding and throws her down, rolling her over and over to extinguish the flames, and burning his hands in the process. Believing the woman's life to have been saved, Charlie is traumatized by her subsequent death. Something in him snaps. He now realizes he has just one ambition left in life: to find the colonel responsible for her death and confront him. Charlie Johnson in the Flames is a major novel by award-winning author Michael Ignatieff, one of the leading political thinkers of our age. A profound meditation on war and guilt, it moves with the pace of a thriller. Indeed, the image of Charlie wrestling with the burning woman might stand as a metaphor for the entire relationship between the West and the rest of the world.

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By the author of "The Needs of Strangers," this profound meditation explores war, guilt and one man's search for justice.

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ISBN:
9780802117557
Author:
Ignatieff, Michael
Publisher:
Grove/Atlantic
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Psychological
Subject:
Journalists
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Psychological fiction
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Americans
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Political fiction
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Political violence
Subject:
Burns and scalds
Subject:
Balkan peninsula
Subject:
FICTION / Literary
Edition Number:
1st American ed.
Edition Description:
American
Series Volume:
no. 5
Publication Date:
October 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
825x550

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