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“This is not a happy story at all but if you’re a fan of grit lit and the dirty south you will probably enjoy this book as much as I did. In a rural Mississippi town men drive old pickup trucks drinking warm beer and whiskey while chain smoking. Coons, wasps nests, opossums, copperheads and bugs are in abundance. The air is hot and there is little relief from the glaring sun.
The story centers around the unlikely friendship between Joe and Gary, but the character who really caught my attention was Gary’s father Wade who is probably the most vile and disgusting man I have read in some time. There is not one ounce of good inside of him and he is rotten to the core. I felt Larry Brown did a wonderful job bringing this character to life in all his non glory. Some of his shenanigans were funny while others were just repulsive. The ending of the book was ambiguous but I let my imagination run wild and I prayed that Wade met his fate in the proper manner.”
About 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,
, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel,
, he quit the fire station in order to write full time. (The nonfiction book
tells the story of his many years as a firefighter.) Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. He was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction and was the first two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction, which he won in 1992 for
and again in 1997 for
. He was the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts. The story "Big Bad Love" became the basis for a feature film, as did his novel
.
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