Brown, Larry 1951-2004

Father and son : a novel by Larry Brown( Book )
8 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 1,759 libraries worldwide
Two men square off in a Mississippi town over a woman. One is the sheriff who loves her, the other a returned convict who is father of her child, but refuses to acknowledge paternity. A five-day drama by the author of Dirty Work.

Dirty work : a novel by Larry Brown( Book )
10 editions published between 1989 and 2007 in English and Swedish and held by 1,670 libraries worldwide
Two men who were born and raised together, fought in the Vietnam War, and were seriously injured meet again twenty-two years later in a VA hospital, where they recount their memories and form a bond with one another.

On fire by Larry Brown( Book )
12 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in English and held by 1,375 libraries worldwide
On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, award-winning novelist Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. With three published books to his credit and a fourth nearly finished, he made the risky decision to try life as a full-time writer. On Fire, his first work of nonfiction, looks back on his life as a full-time firefighter.

Joe : a novel by Larry Brown( Book )
9 editions published between 1991 and 2003 in English and French and held by 1,353 libraries worldwide
Average guy Joe Ransom meets fifteen-year-old Gary Jones and offers him a chance at life.

Fay : a novel by Larry Brown( Book )
7 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in English and French and held by 1,296 libraries worldwide
Seventeen-year-old Fay flees her abusive father and the migrant labor camps of her childhood and hitchhikes through Mississippi.

The rabbit factory by Larry Brown( Book )
9 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in English and French and held by 1,146 libraries worldwide
A wealthy social misfit, his much-younger wife, a runaway, and a big-hearted prostitute find their lives intersecting in the wake of quirky gangster activities, strait-laced professors, and fast-and-loose police officers.

A miracle of catfish : a novel in progress by Larry Brown( Book )
4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,100 libraries worldwide
"Set in the low hills just outside Oxford, Mississippi ... is the story of one year in the lives of four men and one little boy. ... There is Cortez Sharp, a farmer with a terrible secret and a newly dug pond he is stocking with catfish. Tommy Bright, from Arkansas, has a fish-stocking business he's all but gambled away. Cleve, a black neighbor down the road, has a daughter who's taken up with a man so unworthy he doesn't deserve to live. Little Jimmy, whose daddy gave him a go-kart, has the bad luck to have been born to that daddy, a man beyond redemption. And then there's Ursula, the mother of all catfish, who has her own secret life near the bottom of Cortez's pond."--Publisher's description.

Big bad love : stories by Larry Brown( Book )
6 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 657 libraries worldwide

Facing the music : stories by Larry Brown( Book )
5 editions published between 1988 and 1996 in English and held by 481 libraries worldwide

Billy Ray's farm : essays by Larry Brown( Book )
9 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 445 libraries worldwide
The author "aims for nothing short of ruthlessly capturing the truth of the geography that shaped him and his art [and] ... what it's like to be constantly compared with William Faulkner, a writer with whom he shares the undeniable inspiration of the Mississippi land."--Jacket.