The fire-eaters / David Almond

Almond, David
The fire-eaters / David Almond [R]. -- New York : Yearling, 2003

"Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..." --T.p. verso.

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.
ISBN: 9780440420125

1. ENGLISH LITERATURE; 2. CONDUCT OF LIFE -- FICTION; 3. HOPE -- FICTION; 4. GREAT BRITAIN -- FICTION -- HISTORY -- 20TH CENTURY; 5. JUVENILE LITERATURE; 6. HISTORICAL NOVELS

(1) Inv.: S15863 S.T.: J HISTORICAL NOVELS ALM