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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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Language
German
Pages
411

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Cover of: Gast im Universum
Gast im Universum: Stories
1999-12, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
Taschenbuch in German
Cover of: The world is the home of love and death
The world is the home of love and death
1998, Fourth Estate
in English
Cover of: The world is the home of love and death
The world is the home of love and death: stories
1997, Metropolitan Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Series
rororo 22687
Copyright Date
1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997; 1998
Translation Of
The world is the home of love and death
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
Angela Praesent

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Format
Taschenbuch
Number of pages
411

ID Numbers

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OL31900147M
ISBN 10
3499226871

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