Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781574413311
1574413317
1574412914
9781574412918
9781574412918
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| Notes: | English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 m.
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| Awards: | "2010 Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction."
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| Other form: | Print version: Brown, Peter. Bright Soothing Noise. Denton : University of North Texas Press, 2010 9781574413311
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