Английская Википедия:Father and Son (Brown novel)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox book Шаблон:Italic title Father and Son (1996) is a novel by American writer Larry Brown. It received the 1997 Southern Book Award for Fiction.[1][2] Brown’s previous novel Joe (1991) also received the same award, making him the first two-time winner.[3][4]
Brief synopsis
Glen Davis serves 3 years in Parchman Prison for killing a child in a drunk driving incident. After serving his time, Glen returns to his Mississippi hometown where he terrorizes, or seeks vengeance on, those he believes have wronged him in the past.[4][5]
Principal characters
- Glen Davis — a convict just released from the state penitentiary
- Randolph “Puppy” Davis — Glen's younger brother
- Virgil Davis — Glen's and Puppy's father, prisoner of war in Bataan during World War II
- Mary Blanchard — Virgil's lover
- Bobby Blanchard — the sheriff, Mary's son
- Jewel — the mother of Glen's young son[5]
Background
Father and Son was Brown's third published novel. When it was published in 1996, it was Brown's sixth book to have appeared over the previous eight years.[6] It followed after his first two published novels: Dirty Work (1988) and Joe (1992); two story collections: Facing the Music (1988) and Big Bad Love (1991); and the “short haunting memoir” On Fire (1993).[5][n 1]
Brown wrote about how he first conceptualized the setting of the novel:Шаблон:Blockquote
Setting and themes
Father and Son is set in 1968 in and around Oxford, Mississippi including nearby Tula and Paris.[4] Like he did in the fiction he published before Father and Son, Brown uses:Шаблон:Blockquote
Reception and legacy
At the time of its publication, Publishers Weekly gave Father and Son unqualified praise calling it Brown's “most wise, humane and haunting work to date.”[7] Kirkus Reviews called it a “riveting tale of an unforgiving and cruel world.”[8]
Anthony Quinn, in his review for The New York Times, found the book to be a “commendable novel short of being a flat-out success,” but acknowledged that Brown had established a distinct voice and vision of his own: “The model is William Faulkner, but his influence has been absorbed and transcended: the cumulative effect of this blue-collar tragedy proves it the work of a writer absolutely confident of his own voice.”[9] Eugene McAvoy, in The Virginian-Pilot muted his praise of the novel, calling it a “competent, though imperfect, novel” but it is “testimony to a daring voice in American letters.”[6]
In the decades since Father and Son came out, it has been recognized by some as a watershed moment for Brown, “almost Shakespearean in its dramatic scope and the larger questions it raises.”[5][n 2] More than 25 years after the novel first appeared in 1996, popular crime-writer Ace Atkins was asked about Father and Son’s scenes of violence. Atkins replied, Шаблон:Blockquote
Notes
References
External links
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