Larry Brown

Larry Brown has been a force in American literature since taking critics by storm with his debut collection, Facing the Music, in 1988. His subsequent work-five novels, another story collection, and two books of nonfiction-continued to bring extraordinary praise and national attention to the writer New York Newsday called a "master." In November 2004, Brown sent the nearly completed manuscript of his sixth novel to his literary agent. A week later,...

Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers-one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate. With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste...

"Larry Brown writes like a force of nature."-Pat Conroy Larry Brown caught the rapt attention of readers and critics with the 1988 publication of Facing the Music, his prize-winning first collection of stories. The following year, his first novel, Dirty Work, won national acclaim as a work of uncompromising power and honesty. Big Bad Love, his third book, collects ten new stories. Dealing with sex, with drink, with fear, with all kinds of bad...

"[Larry Brown was] gifted with brilliant descriptive ability, a perfect ear for dialogue, and an unflinching eye . . . stark, often funny . . . with a core as dark as a Delta midnight." -Entertainment Weekly She's had no education, hardly any shelter, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her since she grew up "love." So, at the ripe age of seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home. She lights out alone, wearing her only dress and...

El 6 de enero de 1990, tras dieciséis años de servicio, Larry Brown dejó el Cuerpo de Bomberos de Oxford, Mississippi, para intentar vivir de la literatura. Sobre el fuego es la crónica de aquellos años. El testimonio de un hombre enfrentado día a día a la muerte que empieza a sentir el deseo abrasador de escribir sobre la vida. En sus páginas se suceden los incendios desconcertantes y los accidentes de tráfico. Hay sangre y llamas. Valor...

"Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty, grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the heart. He was a singular American treasure." -Tim McGraw A career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown's previous collections along with those never before gathered. The self-taught Brown has long had a cult following, and this collection comes with an intimate and heartfelt...

Trabajo sucio es la primera novela de Larry Brown, la historia de dos hombres, dos extraños, uno negro y otro blanco. Ambos nacieron y se criaron en los duros campos de Mississippi. Ambos combatieron en Vietnam y ambos regresaron a casa de milagro heridos de gravedad. Hoy, veintidós años después del retiro de las tropas, los dos hombres, o lo que queda de ellos, ocupan camas adyacentes de un remoto hospital de veteranos. Cuentan con un buen alijo...

Harry Blake had everything going his way. He retired from a successful business career. He wrote two novels and won the most prestigious literary award in the country, not to mention a prize of $125,000 in gold coins. Hollywood had decided to make a mini-series based on his books. He had a beautiful wife and a big, loving family. They lived in a lovely home on a lake in rural South Carolina. It seemed like a perfect life. But one night changed everything....

« Amartilló el percutor, dirigió el cañón hacia la cabeza de su padre y mantuvo la negra y ancha boca del mismo a dos centímetros de su cráneo. Apretó los dedos en torno a la empuñadura accidentada del arma. El viejo siguió durmiendo. Padre e hijo». 1968. Un pueblo perdido de Mississippi. Glen Davis, el hijo pródigo, vuelve a casa. Pero no está arrepentido. Tras una estancia de tres años en la cárcel, regresa, lleno de odio y resentimiento,...

Enhance your appreciation of the movies you watch. Written for the intellectually curious film viewer, How Films Tell Stories presents a concise introduction to narrative film theory. Part one discusses the basic elements of story-plot, character, and fictional world-as applied to cinema. Part two explores how these elements are communicated, examining time manipulation, perspective, cinematography, editing, and sound. Each chapter concludes with...