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My
Venice |
The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Susan Salter
Reynolds
Brodkey elegantly aligns his body with Venice, opening his
language to include its watery essence.... Read
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Profane
Friendship |
Brodkey's new novel is a stunningly sensual, intricate testimony
to a love that endures for more than 50 years. The narrative,
set in Venice, is related by Niles O'Hara, the son of an alcoholic
American expatriate writer. As he grows up in Venice in the
1930s, Niles meets a Venetian boy named... Read
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This
Wild Darkness : The Story of My Death |
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...
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First
Love and Other Sorrows : Stories |
Back in print, 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... Read
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