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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- ISBN
- 9781565125636
- Book Title
- Dirty Work
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 247 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565125630
ISBN-13
9781565125636
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127448258
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dirty Work
Number of Pages
247 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
"An unforgettable, unshakable novel." --The New York Times Book Review "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 "There has been no antiwar novel . . . quite like Larry Brown's Dirty Work." --The New York Times "One of the most powerful antiwar novels in American literature." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A marvelous book . . . Brown's swift, intuitive dialogue explodes like a land mine and leaves the reader dizzy with shock." --The Kansas City Star "A real knockout." --New York Newsday "A powerful and original work all its own that moves along in short, staccato chapters with indisputably authentic language." --The New York Times "Stunning power . . . Dirty Work makes the human cost of war achingly real." --USA Today "An unsparing book, at once brutal and compassionate, horrible, yet funny, too." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Courageous . . . It's hard to imagine a more powerful effect than the one Brown creates with his attentive, unsparing prose." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[Brown] has created two fully realized, believable--and often very funny--characters . . . No one who reads this book is likely to forget them." --The Houston Post "A novel of the first order . . . A gem." --The Washington Post, "An unforgettable, unshakable novel." --The New York Times Book Review "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 "There has been no antiwar novel . . . quite like Larry Brown's Dirty Work. " -- The New York Times "One of the most powerful antiwar novels in American literature." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A marvelous book . . . Brown's swift, intuitive dialogue explodes like a land mine and leaves the reader dizzy with shock." -- The Kansas City Star "A real knockout." -- New York Newsday "A powerful and original work all its own that moves along in short, staccato chapters with indisputably authentic language." -- The New York Times "Stunning power . . . Dirty Work makes the human cost of war achingly real." -- USA Today "An unsparing book, at once brutal and compassionate, horrible, yet funny, too." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Courageous . . . It's hard to imagine a more powerful effect than the one Brown creates with his attentive, unsparing prose." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[Brown] has created two fully realized, believable--and often very funny--characters . . . No one who reads this book is likely to forget them." -- The Houston Post "A novel of the first order . . . A gem." -- The Washington Post, "An unforgettable, unshakable novel." --The New York Times Book Review "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 "There has been no antiwar novel . . . quite like Larry Brown's Dirty Work." --The New York Times "One of the most powerful antiwar novels in American literature." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A marvelous book . . . Brown's swift, intuitive dialogue explodes like a land mine and leaves the reader dizzy with shock." --The Kansas City Star "A real knockout." --New York Newsday "A powerful and original work all its own that moves along in short, staccato chapters with indisputably authentic language." --The New York Times "Stunning power . . . Dirty Work makes the human cost of war achingly real." --USA Today "An unsparing book, at once brutal and compassionate, horrible, yet funny, too." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Courageous . . . It's hard to imagine a more powerful effect than the one Brown creates with his attentive, unsparing prose." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[Brown] has created two fully realized, believable--and often very funny--characters . . . No one who reads this book is likely to forget them." --The Houston Post "A novel of the first order . . . A gem." --The Washington Post
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
"Dirty Work" is the story of two men, strangers-- one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate. With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste of war., Eighteen years after its initial publication, we take great pride in rereleasing in paperback Larry Brown's shattering first novel., Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers--one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate. With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste of war.
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