First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories - Softcover

Brodkey, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805060103 ISBN 13: 9780805060102

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

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 as an "unusually gifted writer" (The Atlantic) and a "rich talent" (San Francisco Chronicle), whose stories read like "murmured confidences, highly personal yet carefully contrived" (Chicago Tribune). In First Love and Other Sorrows, the young Brodkey chronicles the world of the educated and affluent middle class of the 1950s, at leisure and in love. He establishes the themes that would appear throughout his career--the painful uncertainties of childhood, the halting intimacies of social life--with rare terness, humor, and haunting insight. Two new stories, never before collected, from Brodkey's early writings join the original volume to complete a much-loved classic.

About this title

About the Author:

A staff writer for The New Yorker since the early 1950s, Harold Brodkey died in 1996. He was the author of two novels, including The Runaway Soul (Owl Books, 0-8050-5503-7), three short-story collections, and a memoir, This Wild Darkness (Owl Books, 0-8050-5511-8),  My Venice (Metropolitan, 0-8050-4833-2), and The World is the Home of Love and Death.

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805060103
• ISBN 13: 9780805060102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288