The fire-eaters
By: David Almond.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction.; Hope -- Fiction.; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.
Notes: 008+.
"Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..." --T.p. verso.