A miracle of catfish: a novel in progress

✍ Scribed by Larry Brown

• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 373 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1565126963

✦ Synopsis

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 work--five novels, another story collection, and two books of nonfiction--continued 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 trademarks--his raw detail, pared-down prose, and characters under siege--are 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 characters--an old farmer with a new pond he wants stocked with ...