The Runaway Soul

by HaroldBrodkey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.29

  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.

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.29

  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.