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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 World
Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he’s desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin.
“Literature of the first order . . . Powerful stuff spun by a sure, patient hand . . . His characters just are. They call to mind the Joads in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and the pictures and people in James Agee’s and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It is an understated, powerful, beautiful evocation of a place, a time, a people. It is a book that will last.” ―Detroit Free Press
“Luminescent prose tempered by wit.” ―The New York Times Book Review
“Sinewy and lyrical.” ―Los Angeles Times
“Brown compels our admiration, Joe himself makes us care.” ―Newsweek
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I4N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N10
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N10
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0340570725I3N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. London; Hodder & Stoughton; 1992; 1st British Edition; Hardcover; Fine in Fine dust jacket; First U.K. Edition. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.; Seller Inventory # 0306138
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Larry Brown (1951-2004) was one of the most interesting of the new generation of "Southern writers." He lived in Faulkner's home town, and his characters were definitely from the Snopes side of town. His early death is a true loss to literature. This is a Fine copy of the First English Edition, published a year after the American, in a Fine, unclipped dustwrapper. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Seller Inventory # 001119
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Binding Tight Pages Clean Dust Signed By Author First U.K. Edition. Book. Seller Inventory # 088004
Book Description Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Near fine first UK edition, signed by author on title page. Unread, free of owner's marks, and very tight binding. A few white speckles on base edge coverboards possibly from contact with dry painted shelf. Some dust accumulation top text block. Dust jacket fine with minimal shelfwear. In protective archival sleeve. signed by author or artist. Seller Inventory # 2143
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First British Edition. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1992. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. Pristine. As new. Unread. First British Edition, First Printing. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Seller Inventory # 2201190014