Big Bad Love: Stories

Big Bad Love: Stories

by Larry Brown
Big Bad Love: Stories

Big Bad Love: Stories

by Larry Brown

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Overview

"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 luck and obsession, these stories are unflinching and not for the fainthearted. But as is true of all of Brown's fiction, these ten stories are linked in a collective statement of redemption and hope. These stories come as close to the truth as any human expression can.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616202057
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 09/30/1990
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 299
File size: 3 MB

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 full time. (The nonfiction book On Fire 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 Joe, and again in 1997 for Father and Son. 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 Joe.

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Pat Conroy

"Larry Brown writes like a force of nature. Everything he writes seems lived-in, authentic, and on the money. These new stories possess the same power of his extraordinary Dirty Work."

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