Billy Ray's Farm: Essays - Hardcover

Brown, Larry

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ISBN 10: 1565121678 ISBN 13: 9781565121676

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2001

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A collection of nine autobiographical essays by the son of a Mississippi sharecropper and author of Fay takes readers into the heart of territory earlier made famous in the writings of William Faulkner.

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Brown will show you another America - his America - and dare you to try again to forget that it still exists. - USA Today

"Brown writes like a boxer - economical, crisp, wounding." - Men's Journal

"He's an ex-Marine and ex-fireman, a writer without gimmick who happens to possess a prodigious natural talentT He's one of the best we have." - Washington Post Book World

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Larry Brown is the author of eight books, including Fay, Father and Son, and the memoir On Fire. He received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and the Southern Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1992 and 1997. He received the University of North Carolina's second Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lectureship. He lives near Oxford, Mississippi.

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PublisherAlgonquin Books
Publication date2001
ISBN 10 1565121678
ISBN 13 9781565121676
BindingHardcover
Number of pages205
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 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 place in Tula. Here is the Oxford bar crowd on a wild goose chase to a fabled fishing event. And here is the literary sensation trying to outsmart a wily coyote intent on killing the farm's baby goats. Woven in are intimate reflections on the Southern musicians and writers whose work has inspired Brown's and the thrill of his first literary recognition.But the centerpiece of this book is the title essay which embodies every element of Larry Brown's most emotional attachments-to the family, the land, the animals. This is a book for every Larry Brown fan. It is also an invaluable book for every reader interested in how a great writer responds, both personally and artistically, to the patch of land he lives on. Seller Inventory # DADAX1565121678

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