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A bright soothing noise : stories / Peter Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Peter, 1956-
- Series:
- Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 9.
- Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Violence--Fiction.
- Violence.
- Conduct of life--Fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- A deeper color
- The slaughterhouse
- Since it's you
- The lie
- The blue carriage
- The dancer
- Yolanda's pool
- The darkest hole in the globe
- My new life
- The box
- A bright soothing noise.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- 2010 winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-57441-331-7
- OCLC:
- 723944073
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