Playing with Fire: A Novel

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Doubleday, 1989 - Fiction - 303 pages
Playing With Fire is the compelling story of two roommates who are irrevocably drawn together as each succumbs to the temptations of an older man.

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About the author (1989)

Dani Shapiro was born on April 10,1962 in New Jersey. She attended Sarah Lawrence College where she studied under Grace Paley. She began writing fo rthe screen and adapted Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" for HBO. She has also been a professor of creative writing at Wesleyan University and an instructor at Columbia University. She has since written five novels and 3 memoirs. Her novels include: Playing with Fire, Fugitive Blue, Picturing the Wreck, Family History and Black and White. Her memoirs are Hourglass, Slow Motion, Devotion, and Inheritance.

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TitlePlaying with Fire: A Novel
AuthorDani Shapiro
PublisherDoubleday, 1989
ISBN0385267223, 9780385267229
Length303 pages
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