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Gary Jones schätzt sein eigenes Alter auf etwa fünfzehn. Zusammen mit seinem gewalttätigen Vater, einer apathischen Mutter und seinen beiden Schwestern zieht er obdachlos und ohne Chance auf ein anständiges Leben durch den Süden der USA. Bis er auf den Ex-Häftling Joe Ransom trifft, der sein eigenes Leben auf die Reihe zu bekommen versucht. Joe gibt dem eifrigen Jungen einen Aushilfsjob und nimmt ihn unter seine Fittiche. Doch Garys Vater ist damit alles andere als einverstanden. Bald kommt es zur Konfrontation. Mit einem exklusivem Nachwort von Marcus Müntefering schovat popis

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.

Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life. That same compassionate regard for ordinary people shines on every page of Big Bad Love, whose heroes in these stories have a fatal weakness for beer, fast women, and pick-up trucks, and who find a kind of salvation in the reckless pursuit of love.

She's had no education, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her "love." So at seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home, carrying a purse with half a pack of cigarettes and two dollar bills. She's headed for the bright lights and big times of Biloxi, and even she knows she needs help getting there. But help's not hard to come by when you look like Fay. There's a highway patrolman who gives her a lift, with a detour to his own place. There are truck drivers who pick her up, no questions asked. There's a crop duster with money for a night or two on the town. There's a strip-joint bouncer who deals on the side. And in the end, there are five dead bodies stacked in Fay's wake. Fay is a novel that could only have been written by Larry Brown, whom the Boston Globe called "one of our finest writers -- honest, courageous, unflinching."

Harry Blake had everything going his way. He retired from a successful business career. He wrote two novels and won the most prestigious literary award in the country, not to mention a prize of 125,000 in gold coins. Hollywood had decided to make a mini-series based on his books. He had a beautiful wife and a big, loving family. They lived in a lovely home on a lake in rural South Carolina. It seemed like a perfect life. But one night changed everything. Harrys life turned upside down. Can he start over at this point in his life? Can he expect a new life after 70? This is a story about one man who refused to surrender.

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Braiden Chaney n’a plus ni jambes ni bras. Walter James, lui, n’a plus de visage. Ils les ont tous deux perdus au Viêt-Nam. L’un est noir, l’autre est blanc. Vingt-deux ans plus tard, ils se retrouvent dans la même chambre d’un hôpital pour vétérans du Mississippi. Au fil d’une très longue nuit, ils se racontent ce qu’ils étaient, ce qu’ils sont devenus, ce qu’ils pourraient devenir et, surtout, ce qu’ils attendent l’un de l’autre. En une nuit, tout est dit sur la guerre – seul lien entre ces deux hommes que tout oppose – et ce qu’elle fait subir aux soldats. En une nuit, tout est dit sur la souffrance, la mort et la compassion.