{"product_id":"tiny-love-the-complete-stories-paperback","title":"Tiny Love: The Complete Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Miles\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty, grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the heart. He was a singular American treasure.\" --Tim McGraw\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA career-spanning collection, \u003ci\u003eTiny Love\u003c\/i\u003e brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown's previous collections along with those never before gathered. The self-taught Brown has long had a cult following, and this collection comes with an intimate and heartfelt appreciation by novelist Jonathan Miles. We see Brown's early forays into genre fiction and the horror story, then develop his fictional gaze closer to home, on the people and landscapes of Lafayette County, Mississippi. And what's astonishing here is the odyssey these stories chart: Brown's self-education as a writer and the incredible artistic journey he navigated from \"Plant Growin' Problems\" to \"A Roadside Resurrection.\" This is the whole of Larry Brown, the arc laid bare, both an amazing story collection and the fullest portrait we'll see of one of the South's most singular artists.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarry Brown\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he lived all his life. At the age of thirty, a captain in the Oxford Fire Department, he decided to become a writer and worked toward that goal for seven years before publishing his first book, \u003ci\u003eFacing the Music\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel, \u003ci\u003eDirty Work\u003c\/i\u003e, he quit the fire station in order to write full time. (The nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eOn Fire\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his many years as a firefighter.) Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. He was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction and was the first two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction, which he won in 1992 for \u003ci\u003eJoe, \u003c\/i\u003eand again in 1997 for \u003ci\u003eFather and Son\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts. The story \"Big Bad Love\" became the basis for a feature film, as did his novel \u003ci\u003eJoe\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Miles\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eDear American Airlines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWant Not\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a former columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and has served as a contributing editor to a wide range of national magazines. His journalism has been included numerous times in the annual \u003ci\u003eBest American Sports Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Crime\u003c\/i\u003e writing anthologies. A former longtime resident of Oxford, Mississippi, he currently lives along the Delaware River in rural New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700975833151,"sku":"9781616209759","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e440d7d04c4286ba1d9edb6ee2fe3787.webp?v=1765018880","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/tiny-love-the-complete-stories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}