![]() ![]() Brodkey's subject is the Sturm und Drang of human relationships, especially sexual relationships. The stories are "classical" only in the sense that they avoid trendy experimentation: there isn't a trace of minimalism, metaficiton, or magic realism. The present volume collects, in chronological order, magazine work of the past three decades. From Library JournalSince 1958, when he published a book of short stories called First Love and Other Sorrows, Brodkey has become something of a mystery man. These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades.From the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyThese 18 stories "are freighted with a magnificence of language that reveals Brodkey's singular ability to convey the truth and complexity of a moment in time, frequently as seen through the eyes of a child," found PW, noting the delicacy and sadness of the "exquisitely rendered narratives." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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