num_pages: 247
description: Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers—one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate.With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste of war.
language: English
title: Dirty Work
titlecomplete: Dirty Work
genres: Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, African American, Southern Gothic, Southern, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1947
publisher: Algonquin Books