Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Paperback)

from albertgoldfain

I sampled ten stories from this collection and found them all to follow the same general motif: working through issues of childhood and adolescence in the present or retrospectively. An uneven collection that skews somewhat unrealistically towards the melancholy...at his best, Brodkey is illumina...

from PsibrReadHead

In 1975 Esquire magazine published a short story included in this collection: "His Son, In His Arms, In Light, Aloft". In terms of theme, capture of emotion, description, language used, and the way the language was manipulated, the short story remains probably the best I have ever read. The story...

from PsibrReadHead

In 1975 Esquire magazine published a short story included in this collection: "His Son, In His Arms, In Light, Aloft". In terms of theme, capture of emotion, description, language used, and the way the language was manipulated, the short story remains probably the best I have ever read. The story...