“RISK-TAKING THAT LEAVES THE READER BREATHLESS”: STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL KEY, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HAROLD BRODKEY
BRODKEY, Harold. Stories in an Almost Classical Mode. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of this collection of Brodkey’s stories, boldly signed by the author on the title page.
"This is a remarkable collection of stories. The writing is seriously, often painfully, honest… [One feels] that Brodkey has quite decidedly thrown emotional caution to the wind and permitted himself a degree of risk-taking that leaves the reader breathless with surprise and recognition" (Harvard Book Review). Includes the title story, "The Shooting Range," "Angel," "His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft" and 13 more. These stories first appeared, sometimes in different forms, in magazines, principally The New Yorker.
Book fine, dust jacket with small open tear to spine, light wear to extremities. A near-fine copy.