Burning Bright
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Sharpie mark on barcode on back of dust jacket cover. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“What’s funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an’t completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don’t mean t’other be gone.”
Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next door to the radical painter/poet William Blake, and take up work for a near-by circus impresario, the youngest family member gets to know a girl his age. Embodying opposite characteristics—Maggie Butterfield is a dark-haired, streetwise extrovert, Jem Kellaway a quiet blond introvert—the children form a strong bond while getting to know their unusual neighbor and his wife.
Set against a backdrop of a city nervous of the revolution gone sour across the Channel in France, Burning Bright explores the states of innocence and experience just as Blake takes on similar themes in his best-known poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Sharpie mark on barcode on back of dust jacket cover. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“What’s funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an’t completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don’t mean t’other be gone.”
Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next door to the radical painter/poet William Blake, and take up work for a near-by circus impresario, the youngest family member gets to know a girl his age. Embodying opposite characteristics—Maggie Butterfield is a dark-haired, streetwise extrovert, Jem Kellaway a quiet blond introvert—the children form a strong bond while getting to know their unusual neighbor and his wife.
Set against a backdrop of a city nervous of the revolution gone sour across the Channel in France, Burning Bright explores the states of innocence and experience just as Blake takes on similar themes in his best-known poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Sharpie mark on barcode on back of dust jacket cover. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“What’s funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an’t completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don’t mean t’other be gone.”
Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next door to the radical painter/poet William Blake, and take up work for a near-by circus impresario, the youngest family member gets to know a girl his age. Embodying opposite characteristics—Maggie Butterfield is a dark-haired, streetwise extrovert, Jem Kellaway a quiet blond introvert—the children form a strong bond while getting to know their unusual neighbor and his wife.
Set against a backdrop of a city nervous of the revolution gone sour across the Channel in France, Burning Bright explores the states of innocence and experience just as Blake takes on similar themes in his best-known poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
ISBN 978-0-525-94978-7
Tracy Chevalier
2007