Facing the Music Author:Larry Brown Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and pathology, including how a couple faces the disfigurement of cancer in the bedroom, the rationalizations of a wife beater, or the mind of a teenage killer. — These ten stories, set in the South, are the work of a writer unafraid to gaze directly at charact... more »ers challenged by crisis and pathology. But for readers who are willing to look, unblinkingly, along with the writer, there are unusual rewards.« less