A World Made of Fire Paperback - 2008
by Mark Childress
In rural Alabama, in the decades before World War I, a coming of age can happen in many different, disturbing, and delightful ways. "That rarest of finds, an unsentimental coming-of-age story (that is) also an engrossing mystery".--"San Francisco Chronicle".
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"The ambivalence of fire--as evocation of glowing love and furious destruction--permeates this stunning first novel by Mark Childress, a young Southern writer who gives fresh expression to his region's literary preoccupations. A World Made of Fire is set in rural Alabama in the decades before World War I . . . Childress has created a wholly believable world. The landscapes are forceful and the characters deeply felt. . . . A World Made of Fire probes varieties of tenderness and love, principally from the viewpoint of [a] young girl, Estelle Bates, whose literary forebears include Lena Grove in Faulkner's Light in August. . . .Childress dramatically traces her course, keeping the violent and the tender elements in a tense, remarkably effective balance. . . . Reading it is rather like staring for a good long while into the coals of a fire; in that concentration of energy, many things can be learned."
--Newsday
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- Title A World Made of Fire
- Author Mark Childress
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 284
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Booksurge Publishing
- Date 2008-07-14
- ISBN 9781419655937 / 1419655930
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.24 x 0.6 in (20.29 x 13.31 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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