A World Made of Fire

by Mark Childress

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First edition

Hardcover, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Author's first novel. A World Made of Fire is the story of Jacko Bates, a crippled child growing up in turn-of-the-century Alabama. Tragically orphaned when a fire sweeps through his mother's house on Christmas Day 1909, Jacko is raised by his twelve-year-old sister, Callie, but otherwise disregarded

• Binding: Hardcover

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