re’d you learn that song?”“Known that all my life, So you one of them Missippi boys, huh?”“Nothing but.” (114)Dirty Work is strongly in the tradition of a classic war book with some southern heritage. The emotional, yet sometimes humorous characters give the novel such life that it is hard to put it down until it is over. Brown certainly succeeds with his first novel, which is a magnificent examination of the way the wounds, physical and emotional, that generation endured so many years ago, still haunt those who both loved and cared for the brave soldiers who were wounded in this senseless war. ...
