Ed Sala
1) On Fire
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Language
English
Description
On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department to try writing full-time. In “On Fire”, he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily trauma, from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes, catapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist.
2) Dirty Work
Author
Language
English
Description
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...