Like all of Cormier's novels, Fade is set in fictional Monument, Massachusetts, a composite of two real Massachusetts towns, Leominster and Fitchburg; Cormier lives about midway between the two. Fade, however, represents a departure from the usual because some sections of the novel are set in New York City; Ramsey, Maine; and Boston; and many years elapse in the course of the novel. Initially the setting is 1938 in Monument, a believably realistic place with specific street addresses, named sections of town, such as Frenchtown and Alphabet Soup, and landmark buildings, such as St. Jude's Catholic Church, Dondier's Meat Market, Silas B. Thornton Junior High School, Monument Comb Shop, PlymFade 3109 outh Theater, and others. Ramsey, Maine, where some of the action takes place is also a fictitious town, which Cormier based on the town of.....
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