Father And Son - Hardcover
Glen Davis is a bad seed. Within thirty-six hours of being back in the small Mississippi town where he grew up, Glen has robbed his war-crippled father, bullied and humiliated his younger brother, and rejected his son, David. The sheriff of the town, Bobby Blanchard, is as different from Glen as can be imagined, but in love with the same woman - the mother of Glen's illegitimate son. Bobby finds himself sorting through the mayhem Glen leaves in his wake - a murdered bar owner, a rape, and Glen's terrorized family - and tension builds like a Mississippi thunderstorm about to break loose.
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Review:
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.
About the Author:
Larry Brown was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he lived all his life. At the age of thirty, a captain in the Oxford Fire Department, he decided to become a writer and worked toward that goal for seven years before publishing his first book, Facing the Music, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel, Dirty Work, he quit the fire station in order to write fulltime. Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. His three grown children and his widow, Mary Annie Brown, live near Oxford.
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- PublisherNiagara
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0708958672
- ISBN 13 9780708958674
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages422
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