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 -- Juvenile fiction; Hope -- Juvenile fiction; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Juvenile fiction; Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile 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: "Portions of this novel appeared in ... the magazines Panurge, Stand, and in A Kind of Heaven"--T.p. verso.