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Title: Fire Fighter's Life
Review: Brown wrote several excellent novels such as "Joe" and "Dirty Work" before he passed away a few years ago. Gone too soon, like many great ones. This book, however, is a memoir of his days as a firefighter in Oxford, Mississippi, before he gave up his firehose and axe for pen and paper. More than a book about fighting fires and rescuing people from gruesome highway auto accidents, Brown also writes about life in small town Mississippi and his family. Just like in his novels, Brown can write about matters as mundane as drinking beer or riding around in pickup trucks and still sustain the reader's interest. The man had a way with words. If you've read any of his novels and enjoyed them, you should like these essays too.
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