Larry Brown

• Jan-1989
• / General Fiction
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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.O...

• Jun-1989
• / General Fiction
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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 ...

• Sep-1990
• / General Fiction
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"Larry Brown writes like a force of nature." -- Pat Conroy Larry Brown caught the rapt attention of readers and critics with the 1988 publication of Facing the Music, his prize-winning first collection of stories. The following year, his first novel,...

• Oct-1991
• / General Fiction
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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 WorldNow a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking...

• May-1995
• / General Fiction
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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 per...

• Jan-1996
• / Suspense
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Father and Son tells the story of five days following Glen Davis’s return to the small Mississippi town where he grew up. Five days. In this daring psychological thriller, these are five days you’ll never forget.Convicted and sentenced on a vehic...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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"[Larry Brown was] gifted with brilliant descriptive ability, a perfect ear for dialogue, and an unflinching eye . . . stark, often funny . . . with a core as dark as a Delta midnight." -- Entertainment Weekly She's had no education, hardly any shel...

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
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Larry Brown's idiosyncratic and powerful Southern novels have earned him widespread critical acclaim. Now, in an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, this "true original" (Chicago Tribune) weaves togeth...

• Mar-2007
• / Literary
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Larry Brown has been a force in American literature since taking critics by storm with his debut collection, Facing the Music, in 1988. His subsequent work -- five novels, another story collection, and two books of nonfiction -- continued to bring ex...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK And, so, in just one shot, on only the second day of Schumacher's [Mall] command, the great eagle investigation and the great bird hunt were launched. "Nutrendom-it stands for Nutritional Health Trend of the Month. Actually, th...

• Oct-2013
• / Action Adventure
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A synopsis of the novel is that three unlikely Special Ops Officers are faced with preventing a cerebral terrorist from implementing a sinister, but brilliant attack to bring America and other Western nations to its knees. If the attack is successful...

• May-2017
• / Historical
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Its been just over a year since Sheriff James Earl was gunned down by what turned our to be three Klu Klux Klan men. James' only and younger brother Joe, who was always known as a carefree fellow loved women, whiskey, cards, and especially cars. H...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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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 McGrawA career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings tog...

• Feb-2020
• / Thriller
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Harry Blake had everything going his way. He retired from a successful business career. He wrote two novels and won the most prestigious literary award in the country, not to mention a prize of $125,000 in gold coins. Hollywood had decided to make a ...