Dirty Work, (Paperback)

from JRoulette

A modern day masterpiece. Think Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and you'd be in the ballpark. I believe this and Joe are Brown's greatest novels. This hooked me for life.

from snat

This is one of those books that I use to size up other people. If you've read Dirty Work and you didn't love it, I don't want to know you. This was the first Larry Brown book that I ever read and, after re-reading it, it is still as powerful and haunting the second time around. The novel focuses ...

from Polaris-

Difficult to find words to express how much this short novel moved me... Larry Brown has a way with his writing that takes you right under the skin of his characters. They are so vivid and believable. Dirty Work's two main protagonists are both physically and mentally scarred Vietnam veterans who...

from Polaris-

Difficult to find words to express how much this short novel moved me... Larry Brown has a way with his writing that takes you right under the skin of his characters. They are so vivid and believable. Dirty Work's two main protagonists are both physically and mentally scarred Vietnam veterans who...

from datrappert

Pretty remarkable and impossible to do justice to in a short review. On the one hand, this book is the most extreme type of melodrama, and the two lead characters are a lot more intelligent and articulate than you would expect, but that lets Brown tell his harrowing story of memories, duty, fate,...