On Fire: A Personal Account of Life and Death and Choices

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9781616208707
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 188
Publication Date: 7/3/2018
Size: 8.23" l x 5.45" w x 0.45"
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On 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 trauma - from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes - catapult 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 life’s 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.

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