The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey

The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey

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Summary

Wiley, the book's narrator, puts his soul under the microscope and dissects his relationships with his parents, his disturbed sister, and all the fragments of influence which have formed his personality. The author also wrote "The Abundant Dreamer" and "First Love and Other Sorrows".

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The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey

"Harold Brodkey's first novel is a great American wager: shameless, touting and defiant, it offers us its God-defying originality. Originality is the novel's ambition, its procedure and its subject" - James Wood, Guardian. "Wiley, the book's narrator, puts his soul under the microscope and dissects his relationships with his parents, his disturbed sister, and all the fragments of influence which have formed his personality. It is a work of Proustian complexity and brilliance, surely to become the cult of the decade" - Kate Saunders, Cosmopolitan.
Harold Brodkey lives in New York City. He has taught writing and literature at Cornell University and at the City University of New York. His many honours include two first place O. Henry Awards.
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ISBN 13 9780099913702
ISBN 10 0099913704
Title The Runaway Soul
Author Harold Brodkey
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1992-08-20
Number of pages 836
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.