Those Who Favor Fire - Hardcover

Wolk, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679448497 ISBN 13: 9780679448495

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1999

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Book by Wolk Lauren

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The small community of Belle Haven is more closely knit than usual due to the ever-present mine fire that burns uncontrollably underneath the town and occasionally breaks the surface to claim a garbage can or beloved pet. A first novel. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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at home in Belle Haven, and in many ways it is like any other small town, with a café where regulars come for the fresh cinnamon rolls and to talk about the weather, or one another, often staying all day.  It's a town with the usual collection of quirky characters--the people everyone knows who, by staying in one place long enough, have become part of its landscape. But what sets Belle Haven apart is its especially strong sense of community, which is both strengthened and tested by the uncontrollable mine fire that burns below the town.  Sometimes it breaks through the earth's surface to swallow somebody's garden or a garbage can, even a beloved pet, or to threaten a house.
        
Those Who Favor Fire is the love story of Rachel Hearn, who has lived in Belle Haven all her life, and the man everyone calls Just Joe, who has arrived only recently--and the story of their love for the town that has brought them toge

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679448497
• ISBN 13: 9780679448495
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374