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Big Bad Loveby Larry BrownISBN 0679734910 (0-679-73491-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Bad Love'Book summary:Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life. That same compassionate regard for ordinary people shines on every page of Big Bad Love, whose heroes in these stories have a fatal weakness for beer, fast women, and pick-up trucks, and who find a kind of salvation in the reckless pursuit of love. [via]
Billy Ray's Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tulaby Larry BrownISBN 0743225244 (0-7432-2524-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Continental Lithosphere: Deep Seismic Reflectionsby Larry Brown , Rolf Meissner, Hans-Jurgen Durbaum, International Symposium on Deep ReflectiISBN 0875905226 (0-87590-522-6)
Hardcover, Amer Geophysical Union
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Dirty Workby Larry BrownISBN 0945575203 (0-945575-20-3)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dirty Work'Book summary:"A novel of the first order...gripping and virtually seamless....The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion."--Washington Post Book World
"One sure way to deromanticize tomcat is to show its long-term effects. That's what Larry Brown does in this fine...first novel."--Newsweek
"Brown probes the hard luck of the down and out, the grim realities at the bottom of the scrap....His prose has a dark, horrific urgency. ...a real knockout."--Newsday [via]More editions of Dirty Work:
Dolphins and Whales: Including Other Sea Mammals and the Manateeby Larry BrownISBN 0893170399 (0-89317-039-9)
Softcover, Finney Co
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Facing the Musicby Larry BrownISBN 0912697911 (0-912697-91-1)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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Father & Sonby Larry BrownISBN 0805053034 (0-8050-5303-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Father & Son'Book summary:Larry Brown is the master of the raw and the sparse and of bringing Mississippi to the world in a language that is as stripped down and bare as Faulkner's is dense. Brown is at his best when he writes of the tensions between one screwed-up man and another, in this case a father and son. One has just been let out of prison, and he shouldn't have been. The other is drunk and disabled and intends on staying that way. To make things worse, there is a conflict with the sheriff, who is good and righteous but who tried to put the moves on the parolee's woman while he was in prison. To tell more would be to violate Brown's mastery of dialogue and of that which goes unspoken in this sly story of father, son, and misery. [via]
Father and Son Reading Group Guideby Larry BrownISBN 0805056718 (0-8050-5671-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Fayby Larry BrownISBN 0743205383 (0-7432-0538-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fay'Book summary:Larry Brown's Fay picks up at the precise moment when its 17-year-old heroine walks out of his 1991 novel Joe. And really, who could blame her? Fay's father, Wade Jones, was one of the most enduring villains in recent fiction, the kind of man who would trade a son for a car and a daughter's virginity for a few $20 bills. Reared in migrant camps, tarpaper shacks, and, most recently, an abandoned cabin, Fay herself is pretty, goodhearted, astonishingly ignorant: in other words, trouble in a too-tight dress and a pair of rotting tennis shoes. Fleeing her father's advances, she takes to the Mississippi road in a passage that, with its rough music, is pure Brown:
She came down out of the hills that were growing black with night, and in the dusty road her feet found small broken stones that made her wince. Alone for the first time in the world and full dark coming quickly. House lights winked through the trees as she walked and swung her purse from her hand. She could hear cars passing down the asphalt but she was still a long way from that.
For the first time, Brown narrates most of a novel from a woman's point of view, and while the result is every bit as gripping as his previous work, it is also more inward-looking. Joe, for instance, reads like something carved out of a block of granite; in Fay, Brown feels somehow closer to the story--almost tender, or as tender as a writer with such an unflinching gaze can be. As Fay hitchhikes her way down Highway 55, from the woods near Oxford to the beaches and strip bars of Biloxi, she draws both men and violence to her like a magnet. Utterly without envy or self-pity, she is a force of nature, pure and simple, and Fay illuminates just how deadly her kind of innocence can be.It's no value judgment to say this book is about white trash. Brown knows it, the reader knows it, Fay knows it; at one point, she even muses, "She never had been called a white trash piece of shit before but she'd been called white trash." But don't mistake Brown's work for mere trailer-park sociology. Despite the redneck trappings, the Jones family has been with us since the beginning of time, and their story, like all tragedies, is both larger than life and just like it too. "White trash," after all, is just another way of saying "not many choices." In writing about lives stripped down to their essentials, Brown reminds us of the dark truths our choices sometimes allow us to forget. --Mary Park [via]
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From a Pheasant Hunter's Notebookby Larry BrownISBN 0813804922 (0-8138-0492-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub Professional
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Introduction to Psychologyby Larry Brown , Elliot A. WeinerISBN 0876264399 (0-87626-439-9)
Hardcover, Winthrop Publishers
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A Pheasant Hunter's Notebookby Larry BrownISBN 0892726083 (0-89272-608-3)
Hardcover, Down East Books
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The Rabbit Factoryby Larry BrownISBN 0743245245 (0-7432-4524-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Reflection Seismology--a Global Perspectiveby Larry Brown , Muawia BarazangiISBN 0875905137 (0-87590-513-7)
Hardcover, American Geophysical Union
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Reflection Seismology--the Continental Crustby Larry Brown , American Geophysical Union, Muawia BarazangiISBN 0875905145 (0-87590-514-5)
Hardcover, American Geophysical Union
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Sailing on a Micro-Budgetby Larry BrownISBN 0915160803 (0-915160-80-3)
Softcover, Seven Seas Press
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