Facing The Music.

LARRY BROWN

Publication: Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1988,

First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Ten short stories about men and women dealing with hard breaks - physical, mental, spiritual. "Don't read these stories if you'd rather not know how a man and his wife face, in their bedroom, cancer's disfigurement; or how a homeless mother mistreats her weary, hungry children; or the thoughts of a man who has been planning his suicide; or the rationalizations of a wife beater; or the crazy jumble in the mind of a teenaged killer." Stories are very intense and very moving!