THE RUNAWAY SOUL - Rare Fine Association Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Placed, Dated (In The Year of Publication), And Inscribed by Harold Brodkey

Brodkey, Harold

ISBN 10: 0374252866 / ISBN 13: 9780374252861

Edité par New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991

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1st Printing. Signed. 835 pages. Published in 1991. The author's debut novel. One of Harold Brodkey's greatest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Harold Brodkey's "The Runaway Soul". Originally titled as - and more poetically as such - "Party With Animals". It is "the most famous unpublished work in America". "Dense, ambitious, and over 800 pages long. Its hero is Wiley Silenowicz, adopted in 1930 and raised by his cousins S. L. & Lila Silenowicz in St. Louis. Not quite as crafty as his name, but possessed of a fiercely observant intelligence that unfolds experience endlessly like a flower, Wiley must abide a glamorous, self-absorbed mother, an obnoxious sister, and a smooth-talking father who says things like, 'I won't wear another man's shoes. But I'll tell another man's jokes. I'm the father to another man's child'. In the course of the novel, Wiley grows up, observes his parents, suffers his sister, experiences sexual longing, and then sex. In short, nothing much happens except language: Brodkey's lush, carefully observed antidote to Minimalism that will alternately enthrall and exasperate readers. Brilliant, maddening, and essential for readers of good literature everywhere" (Library Journal). Harold Brodkey achieved immense success as a very young man with his collection of short stories, "First Love and Other Sorrows", which is still widely considered his masterpiece. "The Runaway Soul" is his contrapuntal response to his youthful achievement. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Brodkey collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, dated (in the year of publication), and inscribed in red ink-pen on the title page by the author: "1991 NYC For Max Kahn, Memory on memory. You and I have had a good time now and then. Harold Brodkey". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is unmistakably a close friend of the author. As such, Brodkey's inscription on this copy is the most beautiful we have ever seen. The book is enclosed in an elegant, custom-made black cloth slipcase for optimal protection. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, publication-year dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. "First Love And Other Sorrows" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical titles of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BRODKEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374252866.

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• Titre: THE RUNAWAY SOUL - Rare Fine Association Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Placed, Dated (In The Year of Publication), And Inscribed by Harold Brodkey
• Éditeur: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374252866
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374252861
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Adopted as a child in 1930, Wiley Silenowicz is raised in the St. Louis home of his cousins, S.L. and Lila Silenowicz, and their daughter, Nonie, in a coming-of-age story that follows Wiley from childhood to adulthood Amazon.com description: Product Description: Acclaimed New Yorker writer Brodkey set the literary world ablaze with this much-talked-about debut novel--a literary tour de force about an adopted child in the early 1930s who is raised in the St. Louis household of his cousins. Impressive. . . . The work of a lifetime. . . . As haunted by love, death, and madness as The Oresteia".--Washington Post Book World"