A World Made of Fire - Couverture rigide

Childress, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394536347 ISBN 13 : 9780394536347

Editeur : Random House Inc, 1984

Synopsis

Book by Childress Mark

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Mark Childress is an artist with an ear comparable to Eudora Welty's. I haven't read a Southern novel since Losing Battles that has given me such pleasure.” - Harper Lee. An extraordinary burst of praise greeted Mark Childress's enthralling first novel, "A World Made of Fire." Set in Alabama at the turn of the century, it tells the story of Callie Bates and her adoring children; the preacher-husband leaving in a buggy after the wedding and returning with spiteful sermons about the children Callie gives birth to year after year in his absence. It is the story of the secret visitor who is the radiant element of Callie's life; of the tragic Christmas Day of 1909; and of the children who survive it - Jacko, believed to have magical powers because he was saved from the fire in his mother's arms, and young Stella, blighted by the sorrow she has witnessed. The poetic, non-comic novel that launched the career of the author of "Crazy in Alabama" and "One Mississippi."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Inc
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394536347
• ISBN 13: 9780394536347
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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