Reviews
"An unforgettable, unshakable novel." --The New York Times Book Review "The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion." --Washington Post Book World "There has been no antiwar novel . . . quite like Larry Brown's Dirty Work." --The New York Times "One of the most powerful antiwar novels in American literature." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A marvelous book . . . Brown's swift, intuitive dialogue explodes like a land mine and leaves the reader dizzy with shock." --The Kansas City Star "A real knockout." --New York Newsday "A powerful and original work all its own that moves along in short, staccato chapters with indisputably authentic language." --The New York Times "Stunning power . . . Dirty Work makes the human cost of war achingly real." --USA Today "An unsparing book, at once brutal and compassionate, horrible, yet funny, too." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Courageous . . . It's hard to imagine a more powerful effect than the one Brown creates with his attentive, unsparing prose." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[Brown] has created two fully realized, believable--and often very funny--characters . . . No one who reads this book is likely to forget them." --The Houston Post "A novel of the first order . . . A gem." --The Washington Post, "An unforgettable, unshakable novel." --The New York Times Book Review "The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion." -- Washington Post Book World "There has been no antiwar novel . . . quite like Larry Brown's Dirty Work. " -- The New York Times "One of the most powerful antiwar novels in American literature." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A marvelous book . . . Brown's swift, intuitive dialogue explodes like a land mine and leaves the reader dizzy with shock." -- The Kansas City Star "A real knockout." -- New York Newsday "A powerful and original work all its own that moves along in short, staccato chapters with indisputably authentic language." -- The New York Times "Stunning power . . . Dirty Work makes the human cost of war achingly real." -- USA Today "An unsparing book, at once brutal and compassionate, horrible, yet funny, too." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Courageous . . . It's hard to imagine a more powerful effect than the one Brown creates with his attentive, unsparing prose." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[Brown] has created two fully realized, believable--and often very funny--characters . . . No one who reads this book is likely to forget them." -- The Houston Post "A novel of the first order . . . A gem." -- The Washington Post, "An unforgettable, unshakable novel." --The New York Times Book Review "The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion." --Washington Post Book World "There has been no antiwar novel . . . quite like Larry Brown's Dirty Work." --The New York Times "One of the most powerful antiwar novels in American literature." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A marvelous book . . . Brown's swift, intuitive dialogue explodes like a land mine and leaves the reader dizzy with shock." --The Kansas City Star "A real knockout." --New York Newsday "A powerful and original work all its own that moves along in short, staccato chapters with indisputably authentic language." --The New York Times "Stunning power . . . Dirty Work makes the human cost of war achingly real." --USA Today "An unsparing book, at once brutal and compassionate, horrible, yet funny, too." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Courageous . . . It's hard to imagine a more powerful effect than the one Brown creates with his attentive, unsparing prose." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[Brown] has created two fully realized, believable--and often very funny--characters . . . No one who reads this book is likely to forget them." --The Houston Post "A novel of the first order . . . A gem." --The Washington Post
