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Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life. That same compassionate regard for ordinary people shines on every page of Big Bad Love, whose heroes in these stories have a fatal weakness for beer, fast women, and pick-up trucks, and who find a kind of salvation in the reckless pursuit of love.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a former student of fellow Mississippian Barry Hannah, Larry Brown knows how to write. Boy, does he ever! His characters are mostly down and out "white trash" who drink a little too much beer and whiskey, ride around in their pick-ups in a dry, scorching Mississippi heat, with a shotgun beside them, looking for something to hunt - deer or women, either one is fine. Larry Brown has a fantastic ear for dialogue and his language posesses a brute and simple poetry. I just love the way he writes:
"My dog died. I went out there in the yard and looked at him and there he was, dead as a hammer. Boy, I hated it. I knew I'd have to look around and see about a shovel. But it didn't look like he'd been dead long and there wasn't any hurry, and I was wanting a drink somewhat, so I went out a little further into the yard to see if my truck would crank and it would, so I left. Thought I'd bury the dog later. Before Mildred got home. Figured I had plenty of time." (p. 47)
"Big Bad Love" is a powerful collection of stories about small people living lives of quiet desperation, about their struggles with women, alcohol and themselves. A small masterpiece of understanding and understatement.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Larry Brown is a genius who combines the rich Southern tradition of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner with the intensely honest introspection of Charles Bukowski and Jim Thompson. Nearly always moving, often darkly hilarious, always involving, Big Bad Love is a masterpiece, ten stories of mind-shatteringly powerful fiction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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okay, so i'll be the first to admit that maybe larry brown's style and content are acquired tastes, what with his predilection for setting his characters smack in the center of unseemly situations in unseemly bars. that's no excuse for not shelling out the $10 for this one. i've read the final story, "92 days", perhaps sixty times, and it's just as moving each time. he's a difficult writer to describe without sounding maudlin; let it suffice to say that larry brown sees the beauty in waking up at six a.m., going out onto the front porch, lighting a cigarette, taking a deep breath, and trying to figure out what comes next. and, as an afterthought: for anyone trying to become a writer against the odds, the aforementioned story should be a minor miracle
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