- Paperback: 346 pages
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc; 1st Owl Book Ed edition (Sep 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0805053034
- ISBN-13: 978-0805053036
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,314,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Larry Brown is the master of the raw and the sparse, and of bringing Mississippi to the world in a language that is as stripped down and bare as Faulkner's is dense. Brown is at his best when he writes of the tensions between one screwed-up man and another, in this case a father and son. One has just been let out of prison, and he shouldn't have been. The other is drunk and disabled, and intends staying that way. To make things worse, there is a conflict with the sheriff, who is good and righteous but who tried to put the moves on the parolee's woman while he was in prison. To tell more would be to violate Brown's mastery of dialogue and of that which goes unspoken in this sly story of father, son and misery.
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1997 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Glen Davis is the bad seed. It's Sheriff Bobby Blanchard's job to track him down in what promises to be a violent, High Noon stand-off between the two men who represent what seems pure evil and its exact opposite. "One: Larry Brown is a master. Two: FATHER AND SON . . . is a stinging, tragic history of the legacy of misery passed along from one generation to another."--Newsday. A QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB selection.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
So many novels purporting to be gritty,intense, and unflinching move to the back of the line with the release of Larry Brown's novel of small town lies and, even more corrosive,small town truth. Tense, intense,tough, and touching;Brown's world allows no reverent prayers, no flinching from small town Southern life lived too often at the sharp ends of reality. Father and Son is a life with few feasts; a hardtack reality check,with the only celebration being an occasional, and temporary, hiding from our beasts. This novel will haunt you with the remembrance of lost light. There is not a single overdressed page, paragraph or line in the whole novel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is absolutely brillant, the characterisation is so good that you really believe in the characters. You have to keep remembering that this book is fiction. Larry Brown is the best author I have read in years and will certainly be reading the other books of his.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a strong voice has Larry Brown. The story is riveting. I missed it when I finished reading the book.
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Powerful stuff. Evocative and superbly written.
This is powerful stuff and superbly written. Larry Brown writes in a way that compels you to fall deep into the scene he sets. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Paul Harris
Pretty dang boring
Best I could tell, beer, coffee and cigarettes were the main characters in this book. One or more of them was mentioned on just about every page. Read more
Published on 24 Aug 1998
Why does this book get good reviews?
I bought this book because it received several good reviews. It really must have been a slow month for books. Read more
Published on 20 May 1998
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