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Title: Father and Son : Winner of the Southern Book Award by Larry Brown ISBN: 0-8050-5303-4 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (38 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Blood On Blood
Comment: Father And Son by Larry Brown is one of those (sadly) rare novles that lives with you, haunting your thoughts night and day from the moment you pick it up until long after you have finsihed the story. Brown is, without question, one of the very best novelists at work in the world today. Unless you were born into money and have lived a pampered and soft life (in which case you need to ask yourself, do I even count?), you will recognize these people. dreamers. killers. Losers. people just hoping to make it through another day.
This novel in particular is everything a novel should be. it doesn't preach and it doesn't try to tell you how things are, it just shows you, warts and all. This is the book that, if i could've written any novel ever publihed, it would be Larry Brown's Father And Son. The words sing and scream on the pages and without even knowing it you care about these characters instantly. Brown has a real knck for creating villians, believeable and all too real for some perhaps. Glen Davis is a true bad seed, drawn into life by a master writer.
Read Father And Son, and all of Brown's novels, but be warned: For a long time to come you will be disappointed by every other book you pick up.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Beautiful Novel
Comment: For years, people had recommended Larry Brown to me, but I demured. Oxford, MS had produced one great writer, Faulkner, and that seemed like the end. Could a small town produce 2 great writers? Probably not. John Grisham certainly didn't make me amend this idea.
However, after reading "Father and Son," I have to acknowledge that Oxord has two master writers. The novel is about a group of people in the American South during the late 1960s. The action takes place over the course of a week or so. The protagonist, a seemingly amoral anti-hero, has just been released from prison for killing a child when driving drunk. Far from being rehabilitated, he's set on righting what he perceives as personal wrongs. His perception is warped, however, by childhood trauma, as we witness in his crime spree of murder, rape and violence. Brown has crafted an exceptional piece of work. The plot is thoroughly compelling, if sometimes gory, there is a very rich and nuanced sense of place, the characters are all three-dimensional--even the ones we meet but momentarily, and this is quite a feet. I give Brown the highest kudos, though, for the authorial tone. He treats this collection of cads, ne'er-do-wells, scoundrels and vicious rednecks (and a few kindly souls) in an objective, restrained, real, fair and unbiased manner. This is a difficult feat. Brown is a wonderful storyteller and "Fathers and Sons" is an outstanding novel.
Rating: 3
Summary: Passive women wreaking havoc
Comment: One thing Larry Brown does so well is create female characters who are mostly passive and naive, but are responded to in a way that leads to violence and passion. Although most readers and reviewers are likely to focus on the gritty males in "Fay" and "Father and Son," the action and mayhem seems precipitated by women who seem to have no earthly idea of how these men react to them (often violently or certainly passionately).
Take Jewell in "Father and Son." She's the catalyst for the violence. In the scientific sense, a catalyst is something that promotes a chemical reaction between other compounds but that does not change itself. How the men react to her, however, is responsible for much of the violence. And Fay, she just kind of shows up, penniless, naive, victimized. I think she is even described as a woman who is beautiful but hardly knows the impact she has on men. Double that sentiment after you get into the book!
Anyway, this aspect of Larry Brown's craft deserves more thought and commentary, I think. If you have some thoughts on this, send them to [email protected].
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Title: Joe by Larry Brown ISBN: 0446394386 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: Fay: A Novel by Larry Brown ISBN: 0743205383 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Big Bad Love by Larry Brown ISBN: 0679734910 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Facing the Music: Stories (Front Porch Paperbacks) by Larry Brown ISBN: 1565121252 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Dirty Work by Larry Brown ISBN: 0679730494 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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