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A World Made of Fire
A World Made of Fire
Author: Mark Childress
A World Made of Fire is set in Alabama at the turn of the century and tells the story of the large-hearted Callie Bates and her adoring children; Callie, who married a Bates like herself but from the far end of the same proud line (a great-aunt arranged it -- he was fifty, a preacher and alone, and Callie had her own young shame to put ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780340403150
ISBN-10: 0340403152
Publication Date: 2/1/1987
Pages: 271
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Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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Set in rural Alabama before WWI,this book probes varieties of love and tenderness from the viewpoint of a young girl, whose literary forebearers include Lena Grove in Faulkner's LIGHT IN AUGUST.


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