Father and Son - Softcover

Brown, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805053034 ISBN 13: 9780805053036

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1997

Synopsis

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

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805053034
• ISBN 13: 9780805053036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 347