The World Is The Home Of Love And Death

The Story

With The World Is the Home of Love and Death, Harold Brodkey completes the extraordinary literary voyage that began with the publication of his first short story in The New Yorker in 1952. During the past four decades, Brodkey established himself as a modern master of short fiction. In The World Is the Home of Love and Death, Brodkey returns to themes he has treated so memorably in the past--the conformity and stupefying monotony of suburbia, the malevolence of cocktail-party conversation--bringing to them a new refinement and compression. In all of these stories, Brodkey proves that there has never been a more acute translator of the language of power, coercion, and, ultimately, love. It is altogether appropriate that Brodkey's final return to fiction should be to the short story, a form that he has influenced so profoundly.

A paperback edition from 1998 of The World Is The Home Of Love And Death by Harold Brodkey. It runs to 384 pages, in fine condition. Stock is limited to the copies on our shelves in Kuwait. Shelved under Literature & Fiction. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.