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Fires which burned brightly
Faulks, Sebastian2025
Audiobooks
In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers listeners a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood - 'cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range' - the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country's most acclaimed novelists. There are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of Birdsong in his brother's house in 1992 and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour. The audiobook is driven by a desire 'to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time'. It ends with a tribute to Faulks's parents and a sense of how his own generation was shaped by the disruptive power of war and its aftermath. Sharply perceptive and alive with a generous wit, Fires Which Burned Brightly is a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth.
Main title:
Fires which burned brightly / Sebastian Faulks.
Author:
Faulks, Sebastian, author, narrator
Edition:
CD edition ; Unabridged.
Imprint:
©2025[Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda audio, 2025.℗2025
Collation:
7 audio discs (CD) (08 hr., 32 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container
Series title:
Notes:
7 audio CDs.Duration: 08:32:10.
Performers:
Read by the author.
Audience:
Interest age level: Adult.
ISBN:
9781038033161
Dewey class:
928.21
Language:
English
BRN:
668869