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“Gnistrar av smärta och alkohol, den här hudlösa och grovkorniga romanen kan tveklöst ställas sida vid sida med det bästa och mest hårdslående hos Jim Thompson och Harry Crews. Den är tajt, otäck, och originell." ? Kirkus Reviews“En obönhörlig, ofta rolig roman med en kärna lika mörk som deltanatten.” ? Entertainment Weekly“Kräver att bli läst, omläst, omtalad, och avnjuten.” ? Booklist“Larry Brown är på väg att etablera sig som en av de mest autentiska litterära rösterna i vår generation… Det är en röst lika sann som ett vapenställ, opretentiös och okorrumperad, full av kvickhet och sorg.” ? Baltimore Evening SunJoe Ransom, kåkfarare, ex-make, suput, närmar sig femtio men har inga planer på att varva ner — vare sig det gäller kvinnor, alkohol, vapen eller hastigheten med vilken han färdas i sin nedgångna pickup längs Mississippis vindlande grusvägar. Gary Jones uppskattar sin egen ålder till omkring femton år. Född in i en hopplös, hemlös, kringflackande familj söker han förtvivlat efter utväg.När deras vägar korsas erbjuder Joe honom en chans just som hans egna är på väg att för evigt gå förlorade. Det handlar om återuppståndelse eller undergång.Larry Brown föddes 1951 i Oxford, Mississippi. Han skrev både skönlitteratur och sakprosa, nio böcker allt som allt. Han tog examen från high school i Oxford men gick inte på college. Mellan 1970 och 1972 tjänstgjorde han i Amerikanska marinkåren. Efter sin återkomst till Oxford arbetade han på ett litet spisföretag innan han anslöt sig till stadens brandkår. Som ivrig läsare började Brown skriva på sin fritid medan han arbetade som brandman i Oxford år 1980.Brown har tilldelats en mängd litterära priser, bland annat Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters för skönlitteratur, Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award och Thomas Wolfe Award. Han blev den första tvåfaldiga vinnaren av Southern Book Award for Fiction, som han vann 1992 för romanen Joe och igen 1997 för romanen Father and Son. År 2000 tilldelade delstaten Mississippi honom en Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts.Brown avled i en hjärtattack i sitt hem i Yocona, nära Oxford, Mississippi i november 2004. Han blev 53 år.Initierat efterord av Cleanth Brooks.Fler röster röster om Joe:“Litteratur av högsta klass… Ett kraftigt nät spunnet av en säker, tålmodig hand… Hans karaktärer bara är. De påminner om familjen Joad i John Steinbecks Vredens druvor och bilderna och människorna i James Agees och Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Det är en nogräknad, kraftfull, vacker frammaning av en plats, en tid, ett folk. Det är en bok som kommer att bestå.” ? Detroit Free Press“Självlysande prosa härdad av kvickhet.” ?The New York Times Book Review“Kärnfull och lyrisk.” ? Los Angeles Times “Med denna mäktiga roman om det lortfattiga Mississippi… kommer Brown till sin fulla rätt och belyser sina karaktärers smärtsamma liv med medkänsla och vältalighet.” ? Publishers Weekly“Siktar mot strupen… Smärtsamt ärlig… En fokuserad, driven berättelse.”? Chicago Sun-Times“Mästerlig… Det finns inte en dålig mening i den här boken. Joe är tuffare än en natt i en finka i Georgia.” ? The Kansas City Star“Browns röst är tillräckligt utmärkande för att det ska bli omöjligt att förväxla den med någon annan författare… Vad han än skriver kommer jag läsa.” ? Harry Crews“Frambringar en egendomlig och övertygande skönhet… Fyller en med vällust, bävan, och sorg.” ? The Memphis Commercial Appeal“Det finns mycket att gilla och beundra i Joe… Det är ingen liten bedrift Brown utför när han visar oss att ondskan kan underhålla… att djävulen kan få oss att skratta.” ? Los Angeles Times“En tragisk, fängslande ny roman.” ? The Associated Press“Lysande… Larry Brown har smackat på sin alldeles egna färska tatuering på den litterära Söderns stora högerarm.” ? The Washington Post Book World“Brown har släppt lös all sin hantverkskicklighet i den här berättelsen.” ? The Denver Post“Joe förskräcker, stöter bort, men fascinerar i slutändan… Larry Brown är en författare vars språk och fantasi bildar motvikt till det allra värsta livet har att erbjuda; en romanförfattare med ovanlig kraft.” ? William Kennedy, författare till Järngräs

In an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, Larry Brown weaves together the stories of a sprawling cast of eccentric and lovable characters, each embarked on a quest for meaning, fulfillment, and love -- with poignant and uproarious results. Set in Memphis and North Mississippi, The Rabbit Factory follows the colliding lives of, among others, Arthur, an older, socially ill-at-ease man of considerable wealth married to the much younger Helen, whose desperate need for satisfaction sweeps her into the arms of other men; Eric, who has run away from home thinking his father doesn't want him and becomes Arthur's unlikely surrogate son; and Anjalee, a big-hearted prostitute with her own set of troubles who crashes into the lives of the others like a one-woman hurricane. Teeming with pitch-perfect creations that include quirky gangsters, colorful locals, seemingly straitlaced professors, and fast-and-loose police officers, Brown's spellbinding and often hilarious story is about the botched choices and missed chances that separate people -- and the tenuous threads of love and coincidence that connect them. With all the subtlety and surprise of life itself, the story turns on a dime from comical to violent to moving. Masterful, profound, and full of spirit, The Rabbit Factory is literary entertainment of the highest order

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This book is a comprehensive guide for starting and running a successful small business in today's demanding business environment. The author introduces the reader with the essentials of planning, marketing, recruiting, payroll, bookkeeping, federal and state requirements and much more. Every aspect presented is based on actual experience from owning and growing successful businesses with employees. The author has been in business since 1991 and is currently a consultant for small business owners. This book is a must read for todays business owner.

Facing the Music, Larry Brown's first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories "is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with man--with the frequent introduction of that other familiar couple, drinking and violence. Most often ugly, love is nevertheless graceful, however desperate the situation." There's some glare from the brutally bright light Larry Brown shines on his subjects. This is the work of a writer unafraid to gaze directly at characters challenged by crisis and pathology. But for readers who are willing to look, unblinkingly, along with the writer, there are unusual rewards.

"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit." --The Washington Post Book World Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won't slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he's desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin.

NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER“One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfect introduction.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department to try writing full-time. In On Fire, he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily trauma—from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes—catapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist. As a firefighter and fireman-turned-author, as husband and hunter, and as father and son, Brown offers insights into the choices men face pursuing their life’s work. And, in the forthright style we expect from Larry Brown, his narrative builds to the explanation of how one man who regularly confronted death began to burn with the desire to write about life.

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"Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty, grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the heart. He was a singular American treasure." —Tim McGrawA career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown’s previous collections along with those never before gathered. The self-taught Brown has long had a cult following, and this collection comes with an intimate and heartfelt appreciation by novelist Jonathan Miles. We see Brown's early forays into genre fiction and the horror story, then develop his fictional gaze closer to home, on the people and landscapes of Lafayette County, Mississippi. And what’s astonishing here is the odyssey these stories chart: Brown’s self-education as a writer and the incredible artistic journey he navigated from “Plant Growin’ Problems” to “A Roadside Resurrection.” This is the whole of Larry Brown, the arc laid bare, both an amazing story collection and the fullest portrait we’ll see of one of the South’s most singular artists.

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