Joe

Joe PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565124138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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“Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” —The Washington Post Book World Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he’s desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin.

Joe

Joe PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565124138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Book Description
“Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” —The Washington Post Book World Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he’s desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin.

On Fire

On Fire PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616208708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER “One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfect introduction.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department to try writing full-time. In On Fire, he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily trauma—from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes—catapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist. As a firefighter and fireman-turned-author, as husband and hunter, and as father and son, Brown offers insights into the choices men face pursuing their life’s work. And, in the forthright style we expect from Larry Brown, his narrative builds to the explanation of how one man who regularly confronted death began to burn with the desire to write about life.

Facing the Music

Facing the Music PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565121252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Facing the Music, Larry Brown’s first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories “is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with man--with the frequent introduction of that other familiar couple, drinking and violence. Most often ugly, love is nevertheless graceful, however desperate the situation.” There’s some glare from the brutally bright light Larry Brown shines on his subjects. This is the work of a writer unafraid to gaze directly at characters challenged by crisis and pathology. But for readers who are willing to look, unblinkingly, along with the writer, there are unusual rewards.

Dirty Work

Dirty Work PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565127242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers—one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate. With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste of war.

Tiny Love

Tiny Love PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643750194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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"Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty, grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the heart. He was a singular American treasure." —Tim McGraw A career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown’s previous collections along with those never before gathered. The self-taught Brown has long had a cult following, and this collection comes with an intimate and heartfelt appreciation by novelist Jonathan Miles. We see Brown's early forays into genre fiction and the horror story, then develop his fictional gaze closer to home, on the people and landscapes of Lafayette County, Mississippi. And what’s astonishing here is the odyssey these stories chart: Brown’s self-education as a writer and the incredible artistic journey he navigated from “Plant Growin’ Problems” to “A Roadside Resurrection.” This is the whole of Larry Brown, the arc laid bare, both an amazing story collection and the fullest portrait we’ll see of one of the South’s most singular artists.

Fay

Fay PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743205383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Seventeen-year-old Fay flees her abusive father and the migrant labor camps of her childhood and hitchhikes through Mississippi.

Big Bad Love

Big Bad Love PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 0945575467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Book Description
A collection of ten powerful short stories about men and the obsessions that rule them, such as sex, alcohol, fear, and ambition

Conversations with Larry Brown

Conversations with Larry Brown PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578069507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Book Description
Interviews with the author of Dirty Work, Father and Son, Joe, and Big Bad Love

A Pheasant Hunter's Notebook

A Pheasant Hunter's Notebook PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 0892728191
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Book Description
Larry Brown covers the pursuit of pheasants from A to Z, discussing appropriate shotguns, chokes and loads; ground tactics for hunters with and without dogs; trends in public land use and crop land management; recent shifts in bird populations and habits; and effective gun handling, just to mention a few. Particularly valuable are his strategies for hunting different kinds of cover in varying types of weather.

Father and Son

Father and Son PDF Author: Larry Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805053036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Book Description
A classic story of good and evil set in the rural American South of 1968.