The Runaway Soul

On the release of his short stories in 1958, Brodkey was hailed as a major writer; the release of this, his first novel, announced in 1964 and subject to numerous delays and revisions, is thus one of the most long-awaited and keenly-anticipated events in American publishing and literary circles.

BRODKEY, HAROLD

Literature & Fiction

Perennial

Short stories by this reknowned author

The Abundant Dreamer

Contemporary

JONATHAN CAPE.

On the release of his short stories in 1958, Brodkey was hailed as a major writer; the release of this, his first novel, announced in 1964 and subject to numerous delays and revisions, is thus one of the most long-awaited and keenly-anticipated events in American publishing and literary circles.

Runaway Soul

World Literature

RH Canada UK Dist

Profane Friendship

Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles, the son of an expatriate American novelist, loves a Venetian boy 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.

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.

First Love & Other Sorrows

British & Irish

Vintage

While growing up in 1930s Venice, Niles O'Hara, son of an expatriate writer, befriends a young Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni, and after the war, when Niles and his family return to Venice, he becomes involved in a semi-affair with his childhood friend

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Adopted as a child in 1930, Wiley Silenowicz is raised in the St. Louis home of his cousins, S.L. and Lila Silenowicz, and their daughter, Nonie, in a coming-of-age story that follows Wiley from childhood to adulthood

United States

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.

Profane Friendship: A Novel

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

From the author of Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey's The Runaway Soul is "brilliant, maddening, and essential for readers of good literature everywhere" (Library Journal)...

The Runaway Soul: A Novel (FSG Classics)

Collects eighteen stories that define, analyze, and reintegrate experiences that determine and reveal the individual's links with society, family, and self

Stories In An Almost Classical Mode

KNOPF

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The Runaway Soul

The Abundant Dreamer

Runaway Soul

Profane Friendship

First Love & Other Sorrows

Profane Friendship

The Runaway Soul

Profane Friendship: A Novel

The Runaway Soul: A Novel (FSG Classics)

Stories In An Almost Classical Mode