First love and other sorrows
Subtitle: stories
By: Harold Brodkey.
Edition: 1st Owl book ed., new ed.
Publisher: H. Holt and Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: "An Owl book."
Table of contents: title: The state of grace; title: First love and other sorrows; title: The quarrel; title: Sentimental education; title: Laurie dressing; title: Laura; title: Trio for three gentle voices; title: Piping down the valleys wild; title: The dark woman of the sonnets; title: Gloria mundi; title: The sound of Moorish laughter; title: A well-regulated impulse.