Saving the Fire

by Ian Alexander

When Jean Cocteau was asked what single item he would save if his house were burning down, he reportedly said he would save the fire. Jamie, the narrator of Saving the Fire, undertakes a similar (i.e. brave but probably futile) attempt to salvage aspects of his life in Sydney in the 1980s. The life in question involves an unhealthy version of Christianity, an unwise marriage, a vasectomy, the discovery that his wife, Sandra, is a lesbian (her discovery as much as his), and his attempts to work out where that all leaves him.

102 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2018