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Conversations with Larry Brown
Contributor(s): Watson, Jay (Editor)
ISBN: 1578069505     ISBN-13: 9781578069507
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE:   $29.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2007
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Annotation: Interviews Larry Brown gave between 1988 and 2004 which offer insight into all of his books and several of his short stories
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Collections | American - General
- Literary Collections | Interviews
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2006049112
Series: Literary Conversations
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.06" W x 8.95" (0.76 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
- Geographic Orientation - Mississippi
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
In a fifteen-year period beginning in 1988, Mississippi native Larry Brown (1951-2004) published two collections of short stories, five novels, a memoir, and two collections of essays. Two of his novels, Joe and Father and Son, won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

Brown wrote with compassion, humor, and unflinching honesty about the struggles of rural and small-town working-class southerners. Twenty-nine years old when his writing career began, Brown's plainspoken style, sharp eye for detail, and keen ear for dialogue quickly established him as one of the most respected and compelling new voices in contemporary southern literature.

Conversations with Larry Brown brings together interviews Brown gave between 1988 and 2004. The collection includes interview material from a full-length film documentary about Brown's life and work as well as two previously unpublished pieces. Across these conversations, Brown offers insights into all of his books and several of his short stories.

Contributor Bio(s): Watson, Jay: - Jay Watson is professor of English at the University of Mississippi and author of Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner.