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The Burning Boys

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099748502

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 97g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Burning Boys

When David's mother is killed in the Blitz he moves to a new life in Lancashire with his young aunt Jean. As he watches the adult world around him, a fighter pilot wakes to discover his brutal disfigurement in a world he neither recognises nor remembers. The fragile link between the man and the boy as each experiences his own painful rite of passage is movely described in this powerful and evocative novel.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099748502

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 97g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "This short intense study of character and identity is, as one has come to expect from this fine poet, studded with precise but magical notations of the everyday world"

    Sunday Times

  • "It's his Golding-esque way with males stuck in and fighting their way out of tight corners that grants this rite-of-passage novel its special magnetism"

    Observer

  • "Superb...a novel of special quality"

    Evening Standard

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About the Author

John Fuller

John Fuller is an acclaimed poet and novelist. He has written eighteen collections of poetry, most recently Pebble & I and Song & Dance, both chosen as Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His 2004 collection, Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy, published in 2006, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

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