On Fire by Larry Brown

On Fire by Larry Brown

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Brown, Larry: - Larry Brown was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he lived all his life. At the age of thirty, a captain in the Oxford Fire Department, he decided to become a writer and worked toward that goal for seven years before publishing his first book, Facing the Music, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel, Dirty Work, he quit the fire station in order to write full time. (The nonfiction book On Fire tells the story of his many years as a firefighter.) Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. He was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction and was the first two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction, which he won in 1992 for Joe, and again in 1997 for Father and Son. He was the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts. The story Big Bad Love became the basis for a feature film, as did his novel Joe.
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ISBN 13 9780446671149
ISBN 10 0446671142
Title On Fire
Author Larry Brown
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Year published 1995-05-01
Number of pages 182
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