Pyromaniac
A Memoir
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Rio Matchett
An extraordinarily powerful and confessional account of clinical pyromania and humanity’s relationship to fire
When Rio Matchett was eighteen years old, she set fire to a church. She was incarcerated for the crime, but the question remained, what compelled her to set the fire?
In this gripping account, Matchett sets out to understand the origins of her clinical pyromania, a condition that is little-understood. Reaching beyond simple medical explanations for her compulsion, Matchett turns to legend, religion, literature, and history—from the myths of Prometheus and Pandora to the trope of the madwoman in novels by Charlotte Brontë and Jean Rhys—in the search of answers for why humanity’s fascination with fire is both so pervasive and so potentially catastrophic.
At the core of this exploration, Matchett confronts a deeply personal mystery, probing her past for clues. When did the desire to burn first present itself? And how did it become so all-consuming? As she begins to unfurl what might have sparked such a seemingly senseless act of destruction, she unexpectedly finds that hope and redemption might also exist amongst the embers.
Combining critical inquiry with a page-turning journey of self-discovery, Pyromaniac asks what our relationship with fire can tell us about each other and ourselves—and how we might find meaning in an apparently senseless world. The result is a fierce, intimate, and radiantly insightful work—one that spans eras, continents, and cultures in order to understand what it is that has always drawn us toward the flame.
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批評家のレビュー
Advance praise for Pyromaniac
“Pyromaniac is wise, wry, and fascinating—an unflinching and beautifully-written history of one woman’s breakdown that opens up into a story about what makes us human.”
—Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
“Fire, in Rio Matchett’s Pyromaniac, is not a metaphor, or at least not only a metaphor—it is real flames, real heat, real destruction. Rio's writing carries that same realness, her words precise and clear in the pursuit of understanding something dangerous and true. I was deeply moved reading her memoir, both by the skill in her craft and the intensity of feeling she offers to her readers; this is a stunning book, provocative and intensely beautiful.”
—Haley Mlotek, author of No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
“Brilliant, bursting with power, and lucid as crystal, Pyromaniac is a tour de force.”
—J. R. Thorp, author of Learwife
“Pyromaniac is wise, wry, and fascinating—an unflinching and beautifully-written history of one woman’s breakdown that opens up into a story about what makes us human.”
—Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
“Fire, in Rio Matchett’s Pyromaniac, is not a metaphor, or at least not only a metaphor—it is real flames, real heat, real destruction. Rio's writing carries that same realness, her words precise and clear in the pursuit of understanding something dangerous and true. I was deeply moved reading her memoir, both by the skill in her craft and the intensity of feeling she offers to her readers; this is a stunning book, provocative and intensely beautiful.”
—Haley Mlotek, author of No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
“Brilliant, bursting with power, and lucid as crystal, Pyromaniac is a tour de force.”
—J. R. Thorp, author of Learwife
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