Word: whiskeyish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown, a onetime Mississippi fireman who reinvented himself a few years ago as a talented fiction writer in the whiskeyish, rascally Southern tradition of Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell, earned high praise for a couple of books of short stories, Facing the Music and Big Bad Love, and a novel, Dirty Work. The new novel is clear, simple and powerful, and it is great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father...
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