Dirty Work: A Novel - Brossura

Brown, Larry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679730494 ISBN 13: 9780679730491

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 1990

Riassunto

Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs. Walter James has no face. They lost them in Vietnam, along with other, more vital parts of themselves. Now, twenty-two years later, these two Mississippians -- one black, the other white -- lie in adjoining beds in a V.A. hospital. In the course of one long night they tell each other how they came to be what they are and what they can only dream of becoming. Their stories, recounted in voices as distinct and indelible as those of Faulkner, add up to the story of the war itself, and make Dirty Work the most devastating novel of its kind since Dalton Trumbo's Johnny got his gun.

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Recensione:

"A novel of the first order...gripping and virtually seamless....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"One sure way to deromanticize tomcat is to show its long-term effects. That's what Larry Brown does in this fine...first novel."

-- Newsweek

"Brown probes the hard luck of the down and out, the grim realities at the bottom of the scrap....His prose has a dark, horrific urgency. ...a real knockout."

-- Newsday

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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679730494
• ISBN 13: 9780679730491
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 236