by Larry Brown · Touchstone · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780743205382
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«Fay» is the novel by Larry Brown, published by Touchstone in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Fay Jones, seventeen years old, flees her abusive father and the migrant labour camps where she grew up. With half a pack of cigarettes and two dollars, she hitchhikes through Mississippi towards Biloxi; police officers, truckers and other strangers mark her path. A narrative about survival, inequality and the search for identity in the rural South.
Larry Brown is also the author of «Father and Son» and «Joe»; Fay was published in 2001 and is classified as literary fiction.
For readers of coming-of-age novels with a teenage protagonist and a setting in the American South.
William Larry Brown was an American novelist, non-fiction, and short story writer. He received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts. Brown was also the first two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction.
