Big Bad Love Author:Larry Brown Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life. That same compassionate regard for ordinary people shines on every page of Big Bad Love, whose heroes in these stories have a fatal... more » weakness for beer, fast women, and pick-up trucks, and who find a kind of salvation in the reckless pursuit of love.