A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson\'s house and unwittingly killing two people.
But when the Homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father.
A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson\'s house and unwittingly killing two people
