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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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Metropolitan Books
Language
English
Pages
312

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Fiction, Boys, Social life and customs, Family, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, short stories (single author), Middle west, fiction, Fiction, general, Families
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Gast im Universum: Stories
1999-12, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
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The world is the home of love and death
1998, Fourth Estate
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The world is the home of love and death: stories
1997, Metropolitan Books
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Table of Contents

The bullies
Spring fugue
What I do for money
Religion
Waking
Car buying
Lila and S.L.
Jibber-jabber in Little Rock
The world is the home of love and death
Dumbness is everything
A guest in the universe.

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813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.R6224 W65 1997, PS3552.R6224W65 1997

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Pagination
312 p. ;
Number of pages
312

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OL670537M
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worldishomeof00brod
ISBN 10
0805055134
LCCN
97016459
OCLC/WorldCat
36728039
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549777
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556541

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