The Fire Eaters: A Novel

by William J. Cobb

Damon Bell, the youngest of nine children coming of age in the Southwest, looks up to his older brother as a role model and longs to be reunited with the father who only swims like a fish through the boy's dreams.

316 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

William J. Cobb is a novelist, essayist, and short fiction writer whose work has been published in The New Yorker, The Mississippi Review, The Antioch Review, and many others. He's the author of two novels - The Fire Eaters (W.W. Norton 1994) and Goodnight, Texas (Unbridled Books 2006) - and a book of stories, The White Tattoo (Ohio State UP 2002). He reviews books for the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times, and directs the MFA program at Penn State. He lives in Pennsylvania and Colorado.

Reviews

[Jonathan Cosgrove · Rating 4 out of 5]

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