- Conduct of life, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Fiction, Hope
In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- David Almond
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Hodder Children's Books, Hodder Education Group, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780340773826
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