He won numerous awards including the mississippi institute of arts and letters award for fiction, the lila wallacereaders digest award, and mississippis governors award for excellence in the arts. The whole book is like a thunder storm building up the setting and characters in this story are so vividly alive in my mind as bits and pieces of reality that i can hardly separate the two. Dirty work, father and son william larry brown july 9, 1951 november 24, 2004 was an american novelist, nonfiction and short story writer. Father and son book, a 1907 memoir by edmund gosse fathers and sons novel, an 1862 novel by ivan turgenev fathers and sons play, a 1987 play by brian friel father and son, a 1996 novel by larry brown. It takes formidable talent to mesmerize readers of a novel that focuses on a deeply flawed. Brown published another novel, the rabbit factory, in the us last year, and an account of his sons farm. Dive deep into larry browns father and son with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion. In his third novel, father and son, brown once again sets fire to the story he sets out to tell. Big bad love, his subjects are poor southern rednecks who exist. A portrait of true evil is at the heart of this sad tale of betrayal and revenge. With this powerful, immensely affecting novel brown comes into his own as a writer of stature. He is survived by his wife, mary, and three children. Larry browns father and son is a compelling novel, well worth a close reading.
Even the title points to psychological depths that perhaps only faulkner at his best ever mastered. A classic story of good and evil set in the rural american south of 1968. One has just been let out of prison, and he shouldnt have been. Brown is at his best when he writes of the tensions between one screwedup man and another, in this case a father and son. Larry brown, a remarkable literary voice from the south, is a veteran of the vietnam war and spent 17 years as a firefighter. In father and son, brown gives us the classic confrontation of good sheriff bobby and most of the other characters verses evil glen, just released from prison in the uneducated rural south of the late 60s. In his third novel, father and son, brown once again sets fire. To me larry brown wrote father and son as one of his finest novels ever.