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Brodkey Harold

Stories in an Almost Classical Mode

Vintage

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These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades.
First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories

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Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fiction, with two never-before anthologized stories.

When originally published in 1958, First Love and Other Sorrows won Harold Brodkey widespread acclaim and announced a brilliant new arrival on the literary scene. Brodkey was hailed as an "unusually gifted writer" (The Atlantic) and a "rich talent" (San Francisco Chronicle), whose stories read like "murmured confidences, highly personal yet carefully contrived" (Chicago Tribune). In First Love and Other Sorrows, the young Brodkey chronicles the world of the educated and affluent middle class of the 1950s, at leisure and in love. He establishes the themes that would appear throughout his career--the painful uncertainties of childhood, the halting intimacies of social life--with rare terness, humor, and haunting insight. Two new stories, never before collected, from Brodkey's early writings join the original volume to complete a much-loved classic.
This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death



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A noted author and novelist presents a selection of essays and journals that explore his sexuality, relationships, and the advance and effect of the AIDS virus within him from which he eventually died. 50,000 first printing.
It is possible not to care for Harold Brodkey's obsessive, digressive, almost plotless fiction and still be moved by this memoir of his last sufferings until his death, in mid-1996, of AIDS. Brodkey was a writer for whom style was everything, but in his own implacable and untimely mortality he found a subject before which style was nothing. In this assemblage of essays, journal entries, and brief notes, he confronts his illness from a clinical perspective without losing his ironic tone or his genius for minutiae. In a sense, Brodkey wrote nothing but autobiography throughout his career; this, then, is a fitting final chapter.
The World Is the Home of Love and Death

Picador

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With The World Is the Home of Love and Death, Harold Brodkey completes the extraordinary literary voyage that began with the publication of his first short story in The New Yorker in 1952. During the past four decades, Brodkey established himself as a modern master of short fiction. In The World Is the Home of Love and Death, Brodkey returns to themes he has treated so memorably in the past--the conformity and stupefying monotony of suburbia, the malevolence of cocktail-party conversation--bringing to them a new refinement and compression. In all of these stories, Brodkey proves that there has never been a more acute translator of the language of power, coercion, and, ultimately, love. It is altogether appropriate that Brodkey's final return to fiction should be to the short story, a form that he has influenced so profoundly.
The literary world waited a long time for Harold Brodkey's first novel, The Runaway Soul, and perhaps that 25-year wait raised expectations much too high; published in 1991, the 800-page book received mixed reviews. Though The Runaway Soul eventually came to an end, the life of its protagonist, Wiley Silenowicz, goes on in this posthumously published collection of short stories, The World Is the Home of Love and Death.

All of Brodkey's considerable strengths and occasional weaknesses are on display in these stories: brilliant language and an acute understanding of character illuminate tales of orphaned Wiley and his adopted family, the Silenowiczes: his mercurial father, S.L.; seductive mother Ida; and vengeful sister Nonie. But if the writing and characterization are brilliant, Brodkey's penchant for dragging out the tiniest moment through incessant examination can be trying for readers hoping for some forward motion in the narrative. Plot is not one of Brodkey's strong points, but the beauty of his writing renders readers willing to be swept along on the sheer force of his prose.

Profane Friendship

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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While growing up in 1930s Venice, Niles O'Hara, son of an expatriate writer, befriends a young Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni, and after the war, when Niles and his family return to Venice, he becomes involved in a semi-affair with his childhood friend.
Women and Angels (The Author's Workshop)

The Jewish Publication Society

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A Philip and Muriel Berman Edition

Brodkey’s masterful stories explore the sources within his upbringing, including a non-Jewish education, that led him to seek the authentic voice that emerges in these pages.

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A new novella showcases Amos Oz's wizardry
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle - May 21, 2009
A new novella showcases Amos Oz's wizardry In one, she and the author end up having sex, in a graphic scene reminiscent of the famous, clinically detailed Harold Brodkey story “Innocence.” In the other, she is too timid to respond to the Author's flirtation, and she retreats back into her

Theatre at the FTA - The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - May 17, 7593
Theatre at the FTATickets: $32. Italy's Compagnie Pippo Delbono presents a tragi-comedy titled Questo Buio Feroce based on the autobiography of American novelist Harold Brodkey, who died of AIDS. It's at Usine C, June 4-6. Tickets: $38.

Entrevista a Miguel Ángel Muñoz. La reivindicación del relato/cuento. - EL LIBREPENSADOR
EL LIBREPENSADOR, Spain - May 21, 2009
Entrevista a Miguel Ángel Muñoz. La reivindicación del relato/cuento. - EL LIBREPENSADOR EL LIBREPENSADOREntrevista a Miguel Ángel Muñoz. La reivindicación del relato/cuento.Imaginar una época no vivida en la que convivían Cheever o Flannery O'Connor, Cortázar o Borges, Carson McCullers o Capote, o los primeros relatos de Harold Brodkey, por poner algunos ejemplos, resulta atrayente. El imaginario que a mí me educó en el

"Questo buio feroce" di Pippo Delbono - NonSoloCinema
NonSoloCinema, Italy - May 08, 2009
"Questo buio feroce" di Pippo Delbono - NonSoloCinema NonSoloCinema"Questo buio feroce" di Pippo DelbonoTratto dal libro autobiografico di Harold Brodkey, una delle voci più intense della letteratura americana della seconda metà del Novecento, lo spettacolo affronta il tema della malattia che accompagna alla morte. A differenza del romanzo, nella visione

Questo buio feroce. La vita e la morte nel grido di Delbono - Krapp's Last Post
Krapp's Last Post, Italy - May 07, 2009
Questo buio feroce. La vita e la morte nel grido di Delbono - Krapp's Last Post Krapp's Last PostQuesto buio feroce. La vita e la morte nel grido di DelbonoSe la matrice dello spettacolo è letteraria, un incontro casuale (se crediamo alla casualità) con il libro omonimo e autobiografico di Harold Brodkey, scrittore americano morto di Aids, la messa in scena non è narrativa. Semmai è la costruzione visiva