Burning Boy

'Exhilarating. ' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement. Books of the Year. 'Sharp-eyed and revealing. ' The New Yorker. 'Brilliant. Remarkable. '. New York Journal of Books. Stephen Crane produced an avalanche of sublime literature before he succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. Yet his short life was an eventful one: from crushing poverty as a newcomer to Manhattan and his near-drowning in a shipwreck, to his stint as a war correspondent in Cuba and international fame at twenty-five, to his final years in England and friendships with Joseph Conrad and Henry James. In Burning Boy. , celebrated novelist Paul Auster delves deeply into the story of Crane's tumultuous and dramatic life.