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Father and Son (Paperback)
by Larry Brown (Author)

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Paperback: 382 pages
Publisher: Anchor Books (28 Feb 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1862300224
ISBN-13: 978-1862300224

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,035,893 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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In the tradition of William Faulkner, a novel of love, hate, revenge and redemption that transcends the role of classic Southern literature

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Father and Son: 'Daggers always drawn' reality: 1968, 28 Sep 1997

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This review is from: Father and Son (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.

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Best book I've read in years!!, 25 May 1999

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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.

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Larry Brown Father and Son, 12 April 1998

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What a strong voice has Larry Brown. The story is riveting. I missed it when I finished reading the book.

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