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3.2/5 Barnes & Noble Published in English February 1, 2006 Pages 336 (hardcover) Originally published 2002 Genre Fiction Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 3.6/5 Goodreads Language English Media type print, digital, audio ISBN 978-0618472178 Page count 336 (hardcover) Published in english 1 February 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Torch is the debut novel of American author Cheryl Strayed. Published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. The book presents the story of family crisis and grief through the failing health and subsequent death of a mother of two children in Minnesota. The book is loosely based on the real life of the author.
Reception
Torch has been reviewed by journalists on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Austin Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, Curled Up, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly.
References
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