Dirty Work.

LARRY BROWN

Publication: Algonquin Books, 1989, Chapel Hill

First edition. Author's second book. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's second book. Fine in dust jacket. Two gravely wounded Vietnam vets, Chaney, who is black, and James, white, both sons of the South, lie in a veteran's hospital and talk freely about combat, movies, sex, old loves, their boyhoods, how it feels to kill a man and why God allows wars to happen. A wrenching and memorable novel.