Dirty Work - Softcover

Brown, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565125630 ISBN 13: 9781565125636

Verlag: Algonquin Books, 2007

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"An unforgettable, unshakable novel." --The New York Times Book Review

"The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion." --Washington Post Book World

"There has been no antiwar novel . . . quite like Larry Brown's Dirty Work." --The New York Times

"One of the most powerful antiwar novels in American literature." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A marvelous book . . . Brown's swift, intuitive dialogue explodes like a land mine and leaves the reader dizzy with shock." --The Kansas City Star

"A real knockout." --New York Newsday

"A powerful and original work all its own that moves along in short, staccato chapters with indisputably authentic language." --The New York Times

"Stunning power . . . Dirty Work makes the human cost of war achingly real." --USA Today

"An unsparing book, at once brutal and compassionate, horrible, yet funny, too." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Courageous . . . It's hard to imagine a more powerful effect than the one Brown creates with his attentive, unsparing prose." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"[Brown] has created two fully realized, believable--and often very funny--characters . . . No one who reads this book is likely to forget them." --The Houston Post

"A novel of the first order . . . A gem." --The Washington Post

Reseña del editor:

Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers—one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate.

With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste of war.

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• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1565125630
• ISBN 13: 9781565125636
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256