It seems almost too good to be true when trooper Sam Harris rescues Fay and takes her to his lakeside home. And she is beautiful, which is both the source of opportunity and the limit of her aspirations. Like everyone else in this novel, she is addicted to beer and cigarettes whiskey and dope will come later. Dangerously innocent and naive about the world (she has never used a telephone or left a tip in a restaurant), she is stoic, resourceful and desperate to better herself.
Fay Jones is 17 years old when she runs away from her sexually abusive father and the poor white family shack outside of Oxford, Miss. It is the coming-of-age story of a young woman whose downward trajectory seems fated, despite the glimmers of luck that she hopes are her salvation.
This saga of degradation and violence is his most powerful novel yet. His deeply flawed characters generally lack money, education and a fair chance at the pursuit of happiness, yet he portrays them square-on, with a restrained compassion that neither panders to nor patronizes their struggling, often violent lives.
The South of Larry Brown (Dirty Work) is a country devoid of genteel manners and magnolia trees.
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