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Title	:	A Miracle of Catfish
Author	:	Larry Brown
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 455 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2007 by A Shannon Ravenel Book
Categories	:	Fiction. American. Southern. Gothic. Southern Gothic

A Miracle of Catfish

Larry Brown

Hardcover | Pages: 455 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 625 Users | 71 Reviews

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Larry Brown has been a force in American literature since taking critics by storm with his debut collection, Facing the Music, in 1988. His subsequent work—five novels, another story collection, and two books of nonfiction—continued to bring extraordinary praise and national attention to the writer New York Newsday called a "master."

In November 2004, Brown sent the nearly completed manuscript of his sixth novel to his literary agent. A week later, he died of a massive heart attack. He was fifty-three years old.

A Miracle of Catfish is that novel. Brown's trademarks—his raw detail, pared-down prose, and characters under siege—are all here.

This beautiful, heartbreaking anthem to the writer's own North Mississippi land and the hard-working, hard-loving, hard-losing men it spawns is the story of one year in the lives of five characters—an old farmer with a new pond he wants stocked with baby catfish; a bankrupt fish pond stocker who secretly releases his forty-pound brood catfish into the farmer's pond; a little boy from the trailer home across the road who inadvertently hooks the behemoth catfish; the boy's inept father; and a former convict down the road who kills a second time to save his daughter.

That Larry Brown died so young, and before he could see A Miracle of Catfish published, is a tragedy. That he had time to enrich the legacy of his work with this remarkable book is a blessing.

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Original Title:	A Miracle of Catfish
ISBN:	1565125363 (ISBN13: 9781565125360)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.13 From 625 Users | 71 Reviews

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Brown writes like people breathe -- effortlessly and naturally. The book centers on a cast of characters (mostly male) in northern Mississippi and how they deal with their families, their jobs, and each other. He really gets inside of their heads in a way that few writers do, and exhibits a sense of time and place that's second to none. You can feel the humidity, smell the cigarette smoke, and taste the beer. An excellent read.

This was something different and unconventional. The author unexpectedly passed away before finishing the book. He had sent in a draft to his editor who after his death published this 3/4 finished book and showed the process. If you're looking for a book that ends well, with everything neatly tied up in a nice shiny bow, this is not it. Instead you are left to wonder and imagine different ways the book could have ended. An interesting approach.

I can't stand reviews that basically regurgitate the entire plot, setting, and tone of a book. Because of that objection, I will avoid that approach even though that's what I am tempted to do despite my distain to that approach. Here goes. If you are looking for an "all's well that ends well" book, this isn't it. To start with, it doesn't end. The author dies about five chapters short of the ending. You are granted the insight to his editorial notes of his plans, but it's not typical closure



I love Larry Brown. I wish he had the chance to be a more prolific writer than he was. But this book was quite possibly his best. I appreciate that it was published unfinished, and I believe it was put together as well as possible under the circumstances. So much so that when I finished it I was shocked that there was no ending. But that may actually be one of its greatest qualities: that it just stops being. I imagine Brown expiring at his typewriter, and I'll never stop wondering how he might

i think this is the 4th brown story i will read...apparently unfinished at his death...want to read, not read possibilities and thoughts...'sides, the other brown stories i've read have been a joy to read.this one begins:well...it has all these pages of praise for this that the other....then there's this page with just this on it:larry brown: passion to brilliance by barry hannahi dunno...there's not some sort of index or contents to figure this one...okay, so i scroll ahead, some sort of essay

Brown has been one of those authors I've told myself I need to read for a while now, given his friendship with William Gay, who is a favorite of mine. It's a shame Brown passed prematurely. You go into this story knowing it is incomplete, however the bones of a great tale are certainly present. Tragedy looms at the edges of each characterwho are all multidimensional and feel truly human. Can't wait to explore the rest of his catalogue.