Here Comes a Candle

Name: Here Comes a Candle
Availability: InStock
Author: Fredric Brown
ISBN: 1933618043

Fredric Brown (1950)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy

Age groupAdult 18+

Content ratingR

Pages (Standard (250-400))

Setting

CSM age18+

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Content levels

ViolenceModerate

Sexual contentModerate

LanguageModerate

Trigger warnings

Organized Crime Childhood Trauma Mental Illness Violence

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Hero archetypes

Outcast / Loner Tortured Hero

Protagonist archetypes

Tortured Protagonist Morally Gray Protagonist

Tropes

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Themes

Psychological Trauma Moral Ambiguity Coming of Age Identity Crisis Past Haunts Present

Synopsis

*Here Comes a Candle* is Fredric Brown at his most audacious in a novel that was far ahead of its time. It is the story of Joe Bailey, whose young life is at a crossroads. Not only is he involved with a tough Milwaukee racketeer and two completely different women, but he is haunted by childhood trauma. Psychologically complex and told in an array of stylistic variations, it is a *tour de force* with a savagely ironic ending not to be soon forgotten.