A World Made of Fire Paperback - 2008

Name: A World Made of Fire
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Author: Mark Childress
ISBN: 9781419655937

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)
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

About the author

Mark Childress was born in 1957 in Monroeville, Alabama and grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. After graduation from the University of Alabama in 1978, Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Childress is the author of six novels: "A World Made of Fire" (Knopf, 1984), "V For Victor" (Knopf, 1988) "Tender" (Harmony, 1990), "Crazy in Alabama" (Putnam, 1993), and "Gone for Good," (Knopf, 1988) and "One Mississippi," published in July 2006 by Little, Brown & Co. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday Review, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and Leisure, and other national and international publications. Childress wrote the screenplay of the Columbia Pictures film "Crazy in Alabama," an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals. He lives all over the place, currently in New York City.

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