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A Miracle of Catfish
Larry Brown
其他書名
A Novel in Progress
出版
Algonquin Books
, 2007-03-20
主題
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1565125363
9781565125360
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PQUr34QA1DsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Larry Brown has been a force in American literature since taking critics by storm with his debut collection,
Facing the Music
, in 1988. His subsequent workÑfive novels, another story collection, and two books of nonfictionÑcontinued to bring extraordinary praise and national attention to the writer
New York Newsday
called a "master."
In November 2004, Brown sent the nearly completed manuscript of his sixth novel to his literary agent. A week later, he died of a massive heart attack. He was fifty-three years old.
A Miracle of Catfish
is that novel. Brown's trademarksÑhis raw detail, pared-down prose, and characters under siegeÑare all here.
This beautiful, heartbreaking anthem to the writer's own North Mississippi land and the hard-working, hard-loving, hard-losing men it spawns is the story of one year in the lives of five charactersÑan old farmer with a new pond he wants stocked with baby catfish; a bankrupt fish pond stocker who secretly releases his forty-pound brood catfish into the farmer's pond; a little boy from the trailer home across the road who inadvertently hooks the behemoth catfish; the boy's inept father; and a former convict down the road who kills a second time to save his daughter.
That Larry Brown died so young, and before he could see
A Miracle of Catfish
published, is a tragedy. That he had time to enrich the legacy of his work with this remarkable book is a blessing.