Dirty Work (Brown novel)

Dirty Work
1st ed. dustjacket (hardcover)
AuthorLarry Brown
Cover artistGlennray Tutor[1]
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherAlgonquin Books
Publication placeUSA
AwardsMississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
ISBN9780945575207
OCLC19388439

Dirty Work is the debut novel of American writer Larry Brown. It was originally published in 1989 by Algonquin Books, and went on to receive the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction. USA Today included it on their annual list of best works of fiction published during the year (1989).[2]

  1. ^ Cash, Jean W. (2011). Larry Brown: A Writer's Life. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-60473-980-0.
  2. ^ Dede, Yow (2000), Boyd (ed.), Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, pp. 172–175