A Bright Soothing Noise : $B Stories - Number 9 in the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction Series

The title, A Bright Soothing Noise, refers to the sound that fire makes, promising not only warmth and light but also violence and destruction. Brown's greatest hero is Frank O'Connor, and like O'Connor's his stories uncover the final bleakness of a national life but in the same moment glow with its promise of love and life and belonging. Brown's Americans will try almost anything to connect. They tend to drink too much, to drive too fast, are a little too violent in their passions and even a little too religious. Too often they believe, they trust–and then again they don't, depending not so much on what's getting proffered as who's proffering. They are always on the verge of something better. They only want a little more, only a little too much, and while we as readers want with all our hearts for them to get it, we also fear they might.

ISBN:	9781574412918
Publisher:	University of North Texas Press
Imprint:	University of North Texas Press
Published date:	30 May 2010
DEWEY:	813.6
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	212
Weight:	272g
Height:	216mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	13mm

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