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The Burning Boys

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 17/01/1991

  • ISBN: 9780099748502

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 97g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Burning Boys

John Fuller

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

  • Published: 17/01/1991

  • ISBN: 9780099748502

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 97g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

John Fuller

John Fuller, born in Ashford, Kent, is an acclaimed poet and novelist. The author of eighteen collections of poetry, of these Stones and Fires (1996) was awarded the Forward Prize; Now and For a Time (2002) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize; Ghosts (2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy (2006) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and The Grey Among the Green (1988), Song & Dance (2008) and Pebble & I (2010), were all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

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