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In his first work of nonfiction since the acclaimed “On Fire”, Brown aims for nothing short of ruthlessly capturing the truth of the world in which he has always lived. In the prologue to the book, he tells what it's like to be constantly compared with William Faulkner, a writer with whom he shares inspiration from the Mississippi land. The essays that follow show that influence as undeniable. Here is the pond Larry reclaims and restocks on his...
2) On Fire
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On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department to try writing full-time. In “On Fire”, he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily trauma, from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes, catapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist.
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