What a writer could learn from this magnificent book

[Tim]

Have you read this amazing book?

I think it should be much more widely read, because it's a truly great novel, as beautiful as something by Cormac McCarthy though less thunderous and prophetic and more focused on the lives of its individual characters. Brown achieves an incredible clarity of imagery, and his descriptions are among the best I've ever read. Maybe the generic title and the author's generic-sounding name kept it from taking off before the author died, but anyway. As a writer, I learned a great deal from this novel, especially about voice and point of view. Here are my thoughts:

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What do YOU think?

[Millard]

Personally, I think Larry Brown ranks with Raymond Carver as the two greatest writers of the second half of the 20th century. He finds the greatness and the tragedy in the essential core of common people. With just a few words he cuts like a scalpel into the heart of truth and lays it open and bleeding in front of you.

Oddly, however, some readers just can't see it. I can't understand it but part of the beauty of being alive is seeing how different people can be.

[Tim]

Well put, Millard. I couldn't agree more.