The world is the home of love and death
stories
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Metropolitan Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL670537M
- ISBN-100805055134
- OCLC Control Number36728039
- OCLC Control Numberworldishomeof00brod
- Library of Congress Control Number97016459
and 2 more
- Goodreads556541
- LibraryThing549777
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3552.R6224 W65 1997
Description
In "Dumbness Is Everything" and "A Guest in the Universe," Brodkey 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. In "Waking" and "Car-Buying," Brodkey takes us back into the home of 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. "What I Do for Money" catalogues the frustrations and hazards that lie in wait for an office worker who is diagnosed with a brain tumor and dangles before him the cruel illusion of escape. 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.
Description
In "Dumbness Is Everything" and "A Guest in the Universe," Brodkey 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. In "Waking" and "Car-Buying," Brodkey takes us back into the home of 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. "What I Do for Money" catalogues the frustrations and hazards that lie in wait for an office worker who is diagnosed with a brain tumor and dangles before him the cruel illusion of escape. 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.
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