Larry Brown Brown
Larry Brown was a Mississippi firefighter who became a significant fiction writer of the rural Southern working class. Dirty Work and Joe brought his knowledge of poverty, violence, and plain decency to American fiction with powerful effect.
Works
- Dirty WorkTwo wounded Vietnam vets confronting trauma and masculine identity in the present
- JoeVolatile working-class man's struggle between violence, redemption, and damaged love
- Big Bad LoveCollection of linked stories of Southern men wrestling with violence and desire
- Father and SonBroken father and son attempt reconciliation against a backdrop of violence and pain
- FayDamaged woman navigates abuse, survival, and unexpected grace in rural landscape