Title: First love and other sorrows
First published: 1957
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), United states, social life and customs, fiction, American Short stories
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century