{"product_id":"9780804011556-ladders-to-fire","title":"Ladders to Fire","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. \u003cp\u003eAnaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. The author’s own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. Nin herself memorably claimed that “it was the fiction writer who edited the diary.”\u003cbr\u003eLadders to Fire is the first book of Nin’s continuous novel, \u003ci\u003eCities of the Interior,\u003c\/i\u003e which also includes \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Albatross,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Four-Chambered Heart,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Spy in the House of Love,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeduction of the Minotaur.\u003c\/i\u003e These loosely interlinked stories develop the characters and themes established in the first volume, leading slowly toward a resolution of inner turmoil and conflict.\u003cbr\u003eThis Swallow Press reissue of Ladders to Fire includes a new introduction by Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V, as well as Gunther Stuhlmann’s classic foreword to the 1995 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41048251727969,"sku":"9780804011556","price":12.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/975637a67919fa5b36552063bc47f550.png?v=1698261501","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780804011556-ladders-to-fire","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}