Background
Brodkey, Harold Roy was born on October 25, 1930 in Staunton, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph and Doris (Rubenstein) Brodkey.
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode 1ST Edition
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The Runaway Soul
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Acclaimed New Yorker writer Brodkey set the literary world ablaze with this much-talked-about debut novel--a literary tour de force about an adopted child in the early 1930s who is raised in the St. Louis household of his cousins. "Impressive. . . . The work of a lifetime. . . . As haunted by love, death, and madness as The Oresteia".--Washington Post Book World.
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First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories Paperback October 15, 1998
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Profane Friendship
( In Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey tells an odd and ...)
In Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey tells an odd and strangely beautiful Venetian love story, sounding its depths with the suppleness and virtuosity of style that in recent years have won him worldwide admiration as a uniquely gifted American writer. Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate American novelist, loves a Venetian boy named Giangiacomo Gallieni, fondly known as Onni. After the Second World War, Niles and his mother return to Venice, and he becomes involved in a complex on-again, off-again affair with his childhood friend, now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass. Profane Friendship is a remarkable depiction of an intense and enduring relationship conducted in the triumphantly alluring setting of the world's most beautiful city. Searching, comic, romantic, and ironic. Harold Brodkey's novel is at once the most sumptuous modern evocation of Venice and a truly singular exploration of human emotion and passion. Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy. After the war, Niles and his family return, and he becomes involved in a kind of semi-affair with his childhood friend, who is now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass.
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First Love and Other Sorrows 1st Edition
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Vintage Books) STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE (VINTAGE BOOKS) By Brodkey, Harold ( Author )Oct-23-1989 Paperback
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
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These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades.
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First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories by Brodkey, Harold (1998) Paperback
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First Love and Other Sorrows
( Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fictio...)
Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fiction, with two never-before anthologized stories. When originally published in 1958, First Love and Other Sorrows won Harold Brodkey widespread acclaim and announced a brilliant new arrival on the literary scene. Brodkey was hailed as an "unusually gifted writer" (The Atlantic) and a "rich talent" (San Francisco Chronicle), whose stories read like "murmured confidences, highly personal yet carefully contrived" (Chicago Tribune). 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 the themes that would appear throughout his career--the painful uncertainties of childhood, the halting intimacies of social life--with rare terness, humor, and haunting insight. Two new stories, never before collected, from Brodkey's early writings join the original volume to complete a much-loved classic.
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- First love and other sorrows (Dell Books 50 cent series) (Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fic...)
- Profane Friendship (While growing up in 1930s Venice, Niles O'Hara, son ...)
- Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey (1989-10-23)
- First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories (Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fic...)
- First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey (1988-09-12)
- Autographed* THE RUNAWAY SOUL
Harold Roy Brodkey
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Harold Roy Brodkey, American writer. Recipient Prix de Rome American Academy, 1959-1960, National Mag award for fiction, 1974, Brandeis University award, 1975, Pushcart prize Pushcart Press, 1975, O'Henry First prize, 1975, 76, O'Henry prize best American short story, 1978; Guggenheim fellow, 1987; Creative Artists Public Service Program grantee, 1972-1973, National Endowment Arts grantee, 1984-1985.
Education
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1952.
Career
Adjunct associate professor department English, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1977-1978, spring 79, 81; staff writer, The New Yorker magazine, 1987-1996. Writer-in-residence English department, City College of New York, spring, 1987.
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Profane Friendship
(While growing up in 1930s Venice, Niles O'Hara, son of an...)
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Profane Friendship
( In Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey tells an odd and ...)
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The Runaway Soul
(Acclaimed New Yorker writer Brodkey set the literary worl...)
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First love and other sorrows (Dell Books 50 cent series)
( Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fictio...)
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First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
( Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fictio...)
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First Love and Other Sorrows
( Harold Brodkey's masterful first volume of short fictio...)
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
(These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's wo...)
- Stories in an Almost Classical Mode 1ST Edition
- Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey (1989-10-23)
- First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories Paperback October 15, 1998
- First Love and Other Sorrows 1st Edition
- First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey (1988-09-12)
- Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Vintage Books) STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE (VINTAGE BOOKS) By Brodkey, Harold ( Author )Oct-23-1989 Paperback
- First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories by Brodkey, Harold (1998) Paperback
- Autographed* THE RUNAWAY SOUL
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Profane Friendship
Membership
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American (freedom to write committee 1988-1989).
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Son of Max and Ceil (Glazer) Weintrub. Adopted s. Joseph and Doris (Rubenstein) B. Married Joanna Brown, June, 1952 (divorced 1962).
1 child, Ann Emily; married Ellen Rosenberg Schwamm, October 21, 1980.
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Political Party
Democrat
Education
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1952
Career
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1977 - 1978
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1987 - 1996
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Recipient Prix de Rome American Academy, 1959-1960, National Mag award for fiction, 1974, Brandeis University award, 1975, Pushcart prize Pushcart Press, 1975, O'Henry First prize, 1975, 76, O'Henry prize best American short story, 1978. Guggenheim fellow, 1987. Creative Artists Public Service Program grantee, 1972-1973, National Endowment Arts grantee, 1984-1985.Recipient Prix de Rome American Academy, 1959-1960, National Mag award for fiction, 1974, Brandeis University award, 1975, Pushcart prize Pushcart Press, 1975, O'Henry First prize, 1975, 76, O'Henry prize best American short story, 1978. Guggenheim fellow, 1987. Creative Artists Public Service Program grantee, 1972-1973, National Endowment Arts grantee, 1984-1985.