LARRY BROWN AND THE BLUE-COLLAR SOUTH—Jean Cash & Keith Perry—Mississippi

Description: • For Your Consideration: • RARE: • An UNREAD / VG+ HARDCOVER (First Edition, First Printing) of: • “LARRY BROWN AND THE BLUE-COLLAR SOUTH” (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • EDITED BY JEAN W. CASH & KEITH PERRY • CONTIBUTIONS BY ROBERT G. BARRIER • ROBERT BEUKA • THOMAS ÆRVOLD BJERRE, • JEAN W. CASH • ROBERT DONAHOO • RICHARD GAUGHRAN • GARY HAWKINS • DARLIN' NEAL • KEITH PERRY • KATHERINE POWELL • JOHN A. STAUNTON • JAY WATSON • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “LARRY BROWN is noted for his subjects—rural life, poverty, war, and the working class--and his spare, gritty style. BROWN’s oeuvre spans several genres and includes acclaimed novels (DIRTY WORK, JOE, FATHER AND SON, THE RABBIT FACTORY, and A MIRACLE OF CATFISH), short-story collections (FACING THE MUSIC, BIG BAD LOVE), memoir (ON FIRE), and essay collections (BILLY RAY’S FARM). At the time of his death, BROWN (1951-2004) was considered to be one of the finest exemplars of minimalist, raw writing of the contemporary South. “LARRY BROWN AND THE BLUE-COLLAR SOUTH considers the writer’s full body of work, placing it in the contexts of Southern literature, Mississippi writing, and literary work about the working class. Collectively, the essays explore such subjects as BROWN’s treatment of class politics, race and racism, the aftereffects of the Vietnam War on American culture, the evolution of the South from a plantation-based economy to a postindustrial one, and male-female relations. The role of BROWN’s mentors—ELLEN DOUGLAS and BARRY HANNAH—in shaping his work is discussed, as is BROWN’s connection to such writers as HARRY CREWS and DOROTHY ALLISON. The volume is one of the first critical studies of a writer whose depth and influence mark him as one of the most well-regarded Mississippi authors.” —THE PUBLISHER • ABOUT LARRY BROWN: • “LARRY BROWN is an American original. If a movie were made of his life, DENNIS QUAID or JEFF BRIDGES would get the part. If they could get the accent right. Because LARRY BROWN’s voice is like nothing you’ve ever heard before—that is, unless you’ve spent some time in Oxford, Mississippi. Not the Oxford of WILLIAM FAULKNER, the town's better known artiste. But the Oxford of six-packs and pickup trucks and the pains of mismatched men and women in trailer parks…. LARRY BROWN grew up amid poverty, Southern style. His father was a sharecropper who moved his wife and four children from Mississippi to Memphis when he couldn't make a living farming. When they returned to Oxford 10 years later, his father worked in the same stove factory BROWN would work in a decade or so later. Wherever they were, money was scarce and problems plentiful…. People often ask this trim, wiry man with the friendly manner and boyish smile why he writes about people with such violent, troubled lives. ‘It’s not that I have a bleak outlook on life or anything,’ he says. ‘There is just no way for some lives to have a happy ending….’” —JUDITH WEINRAUB, WASHINGTON POST • “He is blunt and abrasive about subjects that tend to cause flinching. He tells stories in plain language.” —THE NEW YORKER • “That he came to writing late, without any institution of higher learning to dictate to him the ideology of good writing, was to his advantage, allowing him to appraise his new vocation with the eyes of someone who knew something of the world….” —WOODY HAUT, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “I think he’s become one of America’s great stories—how his diligence and his big backbone won out. Something happened in about five years that's quite a miracle. He’s become his own genius.” —BARRY HANNAH • “Right from the beginning he was willing to look very straight into the depths of human pain without blinking. If you didn’t blink and were willing to stand there and look with him, you could learn some remarkable things.” —SHANNON RAVENAL, EDITOR, ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL • “LARRY BROWN is one of the more distinctive prose artists of our time…. His prose is starkly poetic, his characterizations, occasionally darkly comic, are always uncompromising and convincing.” —HOUSTON POST • “It is my feeling that BROWN’s voice is distinctive enough to make it impossible to confuse it with any other writer…. My hope that he will write a lot is entirely selfish, because whatever he writes, I will read.” —HARRY CREWS • “The truth of the matter is that BROWN is one of the best writers we have, able in a sentence or two to cut to the heart of things.”—WASHINGTON POST • “LARRY BROWN is establishing himself as one of the most authentic literary voices of our generation. It’s a voice framed, as many great voices have been, in the inflections of the South. It's a voice as true as a gun rack, unpretentious and uncorrupted, full of wit and sorrow.” —BALTIMORE EVENING SUN • “LARRY BROWN is a writer whose language and imagination redeem the very worst life has to offer: a novelist of unusual power.”—WILLIAM KENNEDY • “The most compassionate of writers, BROWN loves every living no-good heart he commits to paper.”—BEVERLY LOWRY, NEW YORK TIMES • “A modern FAULKNER, a Southern RAYMOND CARVER, a force of nature unto himself. No one was better at describing the worn-out lives of lower-class Americans (except CARVER himself).”—DAVID ABRAMS, JANUARY MAGAZINE • “This may be overblown but I’ll say it, anyway: There’s a bit of CHEKHOV in BROWN’s style. Like BROWN, CHEKHOV wrote simply about great tragedy and unexpected humor. He let his characters speak; they didn’t have to alter their behavior to conform to his plans.”—DAN BARRETT, POPMATTERS • “Literature of the first order…. Powerful stuff spun by a sure, patient hand…. His characters just are. They call to mind the JOADS in JOHN STEINBECK’s THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the pictures and people in JAMES AGEE’s and WALKER EVANS’s LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN.”―DETROIT FREE PRESS • “A luminescent prose tempered by wit…a Mississippi so vividly sketched you can all but mount it on your wall.”—LEON ROOKE, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “BROWN has quietly established himself as among the finest of the new generation of Southern writers.” —DENVER POST • “LARRY BROWN has an unerring comic sense, a sensitive ear for talk, an unsentimental commitment to his characters….” —ELLEN DOUGLAS • “LARRY BROWN’s hometown is the same as WILLIAM FAULKNER’s, Oxford, Mississippi. But his [writing] is not imitation FAULKNER. BROWN has his own style and is comfortable in it.”—CLEANTH BROOKS • “Reading LARRY BROWN’s work can give you a chill...has the rawness of ERSKINE CALDWELL’s TOBACCO ROAD with a touch of WILLIAM FAULKNER’s brooding theatrics.” —ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH • “BROWN has earned his place as one of the best new Southern writers.” —RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH • “LARRY BROWN has emerged as one of our finest writers.” —COX NEWS SERVICE • “A writer of stature.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “LARRY BROWN is establishing himself as one of the most authentic literary voices of our generation. It’s a voice framed, as many great voices have been, in the inflections of the South. It’s a voice as true as a gun rack, unpretentious and uncorrupted, full of wit and sorrow.” ―BALTIMORE EVENING SUN • “Direct, powerful, and singularly honest.” —WILLIE MORRIS • “LARRY BROWN writes like a force of nature.” —PAT CONROY • “He know things…you didn’t think would get found out until Judgment Day.”—JACK BUTLER • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “LARRY BROWN AND THE BLUE-COLLAR SOUTH” EDITORS: JEAN W. CASH & KEITH PERRY FOREWORD: RICK BASS CONTRIBUTORS: MELANIE R. BENSON • THOMAS ÆRVOLD BJERRE, MARTYN BONE, MARK S. GRAYBILL, RICHARD E. LEE, KENNETH MILLARD, JAMES B. POTTS III, SCOTT ROMINE, MATTHEW SHIPPE • DANIEL E. WILLIAMS TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, Ms.), 2008 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this statement: “First Edition, 2008.” NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 184 ISBN: 978-1-934110-75-1 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Per house style, not issued with a price on DJ. Corners & spine tips are bumped. There is light but persistent scratching & smudging (from normal handling) on sides—but DJ is still bright & clean. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Boards are bright & clean. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased with lightly bumped tips & bright lettering. Text-block edges are fine. Pages are pointedly clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative. 4. PACKING & SHIPPING. 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Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item. *********** HOW TO PAY ***********PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action. NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!*********** LASTLY ***********What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can. Thanks for trusting FLAPPINCAT! *********** P.S. COMINGSOON *********** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= FLAPPINCAT’s BIG BARN SALE of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS Featuring the best from a long-running collection of psych, garage, folk, private press, blues, gospel, world, xian, & oddities. *********** *********** • • For other details about this book, please see below. • SERIES: “RADCLIFFE BIOGRAPHY SERIES” TITLE: “SIMONE WEIL: A Modern Pilgrimage” AUTHOR: ROBERT COLES TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: A Merloyd Lawrence Book / Addison Wesley (New York), 1987 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First printing, April 1987”—with no later editions listed. PAGES: 179ISBN: 0201022052 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price (17.95) is uncut. DJ is clean & bright with light scratching (from normal handling) on sides. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light edgewear. • CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Boards are clean with bumped corners. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. The fore text-block edge has a small, light stain; edges are otherwise fine. Endpapers are also fine. The pages are all pointedly clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no tears/rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. •• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative. 4. PACKING & SHIPPING. We know from experience that items, when not thoughtfully packed, can be damaged during shipment. To avoid that real danger, FLAPPINCAT wraps & cushions your purchase(s) mindfully—and sometimes zealously—in a sturdy package. WARNING: In our zeal, we sometimes over-tape containers and you may need a penknife to unseal our shipments. NOTE: Though we often recycle shipping materials, we do NOT stint on protection. 5. OUR PRICES. We try to offer the lowest prices on eBay for items we sell. Even our most expensive offerings tend to be lower than what others are asking. “You could look it up!” —to quote baseball immortal JACK KEEFE. SUMMARY: We know you have many buying options on eBay. FLAPPINCAT tries to be distinctive by being accurate, mindful, and friendly. *********** How We GRADECONDITION ***********DETAILS. The condition of every item we sell will be described in detail.FLAWS. All discernible flaws will be noted, if not emphasized. Of course, the grading of condition can be subjective. And since no grader is perfect, it is possible that we may at times miss a flaw. It is also possible that we may miss some perfections! Should we make a mistake, you will find FLAPPINCAT eager to fix things with you. Just send us a note and we’ll get on it.GRADING SYSTEM. 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(These extra photos also help to establish a paper-trial in the rare case that an item is damaged en route to you.)*********** SHIPPING ***********Every item is individually priced for postage. That price can be found in the listing, not here. UNITED STATES: In the USA, we ship books via MEDIA MAIL. Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item. *********** HOW TO PAY ***********PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action. NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!*********** LASTLY ***********What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can. Thanks for trusting FLAPPINCAT! *********** P.S. COMINGSOON *********** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= FLAPPINCAT’s BIG BARN SALE of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS Featuring the best from a long-running collection of psych, garage, folk, private press, blues, gospel, world, xian, & oddities. *********** ***********

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