
Unquenchable Fire
(The first book in the Unquenchable Fire series)(1988)
A novel by
Rachel Pollack
AwardsArthur C. Clarke Award
| "Surrealistic, imaginative, wildly original!" Marion Zimmer Bradley |
It's uncomfortable to be chosen for Great Things. A lot of fantasists admit that, but Pollack's Jennie Mazdan shows us just how uncomfortable it can be. This is suburban fantasy, reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's suburban SF, and the protagonist is a nice suburban middle-class person who, in a recognizable America informed with rational, non-Christian divine powers, copes with supernatural imposition on her life. Perfectly balancing the anchoring familiar mundanities against her brilliant, fascinating Living World---surly bureaucrats at the National Oneiric Registration Agency, tourists photographing the Founder's Urinal shrine in Poughkeepsie---Pollack tells Jennie and Valerie's story of transformation, acceptance and triumph. Potently stocked with archetypes, yet down-to-earth and even funny, this is great fiction and great fantasy.
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Hardback Editions
March 1992 : Hardback
| Title: Unquenchable Fire Author(s): Rachel Pollack ISBN: 0-87951-447-7 / 978-0-87951-447-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Overlook Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1988 : Hardback
| Title: Unquenchable Fire Author(s): Rachel Pollack ISBN: 0-7126-1950-X / 978-0-7126-1950-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Legend Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
July 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Unquenchable Fire Author(s): Rachel Pollack ISBN: 0-87951-530-9 / 978-0-87951-530-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Overlook TP Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Unquenchable Fire Author(s): Rachel Pollack ISBN: 1-85723-182-1 / 9781857231823 (UK edition) Publisher: Orbit Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1989 : Paperback
| Title: Unquenchable Fire Author(s): Rachel Pollack ISBN: 0-09-958950-8 / 978-0-09-958950-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Legend paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1988 : Paperback
| Title: Unquenchable Fire Author(s): Rachel Pollack ISBN: 0-7126-2341-8 / 978-0-7126-2341-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Legend Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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