num_pages: 208
description: NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNEROne of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown this is a perfect introduction. Dwight Garner The New York TimesOn January 6 1990 after seventeen years on the job Larry Brown quit the Oxford Mississippi fire department to try writing full-time. In On Fire  he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily traumafrom the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenescatapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist.As a firefighter and fireman-turned-author as husband and hunter and as father and son Brown offers insights into the choices men face pursuing their lifes work. And in the forthright style we expect from Larry Brown his narrative builds to the explanation of how one man who regularly confronted death began to burn with the desire to write about life.
language: English
title: On Fire
publisher: Algonquin Books