Dirty Work

Dirty Work
ISBN-10
1565125630
ISBN-13
9781565125636
Series
Dirty Work
Category
Fiction
Pages
247
Language
English
Published
2007-03-30
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Author
Larry Brown

Description

Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangersÑone 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 of war.

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