The World Is the Home of Love and Death - Couverture souple

Brodkey, Harold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857028368 ISBN 13 : 9781857028362

Editeur : 4th Estate, 1998

Synopsis

The final short story collection that completes the extraordinary literary voyage of Harold Brodkey, a modern master of short fiction; his most forceful and incisive collection of all.

In this collection, Harold Brodkey displays all his remarkable gifts – his exquisite authorial control, his unerring attentiveness to the subtle dynamics of sexual power, and his remarkable ability to depict the perils and perversities of family life. He returns to themes he has treated so memorably in the past – the malevolence of cocktail-party conversation, the conformity and stupefying monotony of suburbia – bringing to them a new refinement and compression. And he takes us back to the Silenowicz family, Wiley, S.L. and Lila, where unstated threats lurk behind kind words, and where a gentle parental touch carries more than a hint of seduction. In all of these stories, several of which were completed in the last months of his life, Harold Brodkey proves that there has never been a more acute translator of the language of power, coercion, and, ultimately, love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brodkey’s short stories for the New Yorker were collected in his 1957 First Love and Other Sorrows. A second collection of short stories, The Abundant Dreamer, appeared in 1988, and his long-awaited novel The Runaway Soul three years later.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 4th Estate
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857028368
• ISBN 13: 9781857028362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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