The Fires of Spring

The Fires Of Spring  

1st edition cover
Author(s) James A. Michener
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fiction
Publisher Random House
Publication date 1949
Media type print
Pages 495pp.
ISBN 1499077092 / 1-4990-7709-2

The Fires of Spring (1949) is the second novel published by American author James A. Michener. Usually known for his multi-generational epics of historical fiction, The Fires of Spring was written as a partially autobiographical bildungsroman in which Michener's proxy, young orphan David Harper, searches for meaning and romance in pre-WWII Pennsylvania.