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03366aam a2200445 i 4500 001 376CFDE21A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230704010055 007 tb 008 230206t20232023meu ed 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023005202 020 $a 9798885786157 (large print : hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1369031842 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IL2 $d PBJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-va 050 10 $a PS3602.E2474 $b H68 2023b 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20230206 084 $a FIC044000 $a FIC044000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Beanland, Rachel, $e author. 245 14 $a The house is on fire / $c Rachel Beanland. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c [2023] 263 $a 2306 300 $a 625 pages (large print) ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church. On the night after Christmas, the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes, sits newly-widowed Sally Henry Campbell, who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away, in the colored gallery, Cecily Patterson doesn't give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four-hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to worse. Backstage, young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that, if he can impress the theater's managers, he'll be offered a permanent job with the company. And on the other side of town, blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater, but he'll have to buy her freedom first. When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance, Sally, Cecily, Jack, and Gilbert make a series of split-second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire, as news of the disaster spreads across the United States, the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined. Based on the true story of Richmond's theater fire, The House Is on Fire offers proof that sometimes, in the midst of great tragedy, we are offered our most precious--and fleeting--chances at redemption. -- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.) $x Fire, 1811 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Theaters $x Accidents $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Richmond (Va.) $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Virginia $x Social life and customs $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20231028021319.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230706011141.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230706010551.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230704012549.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=376CFDE21A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search