First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
A staff writer for The New Yorker since the early 1950s, Harold Brodkey died in 1996. He was the author of two novels, including The Runaway Soul (Owl Books, 0-8050-5503-7), three short-story collections, and a memoir, This Wild Darkness (Owl Books, 0-8050-5511-8),  My Venice (Metropolitan, 0-8050-4833-2), and The World is the Home of Love and Death.