First Love and Other Sorrows
Author | : Harold Brodkey |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1998-10-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780805060102 |
ISBN-13 | : 0805060103 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Download or read book First Love and Other Sorrows written by Harold Brodkey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 themes that would appear throughout his career: the painful uncertainties of childhood and the halting intimacies of social life. This edition includes three never-before-collected stories, to complete an anthology of rare tenderness, humor, and haunting insight.