Larry Brown (1) (1951–2004)
Autor(a) de Fay
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About the Author
Larry Brown is the author of eight books, including Fay, Father and Son, and the memoir On Fire. He received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1992 and 1997. He received the University of North Carolina's mostrar mais second Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lectureship. He lives near Oxford, Mississippi mostrar menos
Obras por Larry Brown
Associated Works
The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction (1993) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit (2010) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Christmas in the South: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers (2004) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (2002) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1951-07-09
- Data de falecimento
- 2004-11-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Oxford, Mississippi, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Oxford, Mississippi, USA
- Locais de residência
- Oxford, Mississippi, USA
- Ocupações
- writer
firefighter - Organizações
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
US Marine Corps - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Southern Book Award for Fiction
Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award
Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction
Membros
Críticas
If you liked "Billy Ray's Farm", you'll like this one too. More of Brown's straight to the heart writing.
This was the first book I read by Larry Brown. I've read it twice now, and will read it again. There's something about his writing that makes me feel at home, makes me feel closer to other humans than I would have without it. It's simple and direct, straight from his heart to mine. I suppose it helps that I grew up in a similar place in the rural south, so I recognize the cast of characters he develops. (I'm speaking of his fiction work). His characters are real. I've known them and been them. In this collection of essays, he shows with his easy prose, all the ugliness along with the beauty of living.
If you are a writer or aspire to be, you must read this book.
… (mais)
If you are a writer or aspire to be, you must read this book.
… (mais)
Two Vietnam vets get to know one another in a Veteran's hospital over the course of a painful evening. One, a multiple amputee, hopes to convince the other, a severe head wound survivor, to engage in an act of brutal mercy. The narrative cuts between the two as they retell their stories to each other, and to themselves. It's sad and moving, and psychedelic sometimes - the amputee has a frank conversation with a chain smoking Jesus.
3 bones!!!
3 bones!!!
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 19
- Membros
- 3,018
- Popularidade
- #8,458
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 114
- ISBN
- 132
- Línguas
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 12
- Pedras de toque
- 122
Thanks to Pat Knight for this gift.