Women and Angels

Stories

Fiction & Literature, Classics, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book Women and Angels by Harold Brodkey, Open Road Media
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Harold Brodkey ISBN: 9781480428003
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: June 18, 2013
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Harold Brodkey
ISBN: 9781480428003
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: June 18, 2013
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

From Harold Brodkey come three remarkable stories about the brief lives of two women and the troubling appearance of an angel above Harvard University

Considered by many to be among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, Harold Brodkey created fiction that startled, provoked, and often confounded. These three novellas, told through the recollections of fictional alter ego, Wiley Silenowicz, serve as sterling examples of Brodkey’s magnificent talent.

 

In “Ceil,” Wiley imagines the mother he never knew, brilliantly reinventing the woman who died when he was a child of two, creating a parent both idealized and painfully real. In “Lila,” Wiley remembers his adoptive mother, an unloving and unlovable, self-involved woman, whose early death from cancer left a permanent void in his family. And in “Angel,”the book’s remarkable closing piece, Wiley recalls a heavenly visitation that came to him and many others while studying at Harvard University, and which heralded a truth most difficult to bear. For lovers of literature who have yet to experience Brodkey’s unique style, soaring language, and conceptual brilliance, Women and Angels is a marvelous introduction to an American master.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

From Harold Brodkey come three remarkable stories about the brief lives of two women and the troubling appearance of an angel above Harvard University

Considered by many to be among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, Harold Brodkey created fiction that startled, provoked, and often confounded. These three novellas, told through the recollections of fictional alter ego, Wiley Silenowicz, serve as sterling examples of Brodkey’s magnificent talent.

 

In “Ceil,” Wiley imagines the mother he never knew, brilliantly reinventing the woman who died when he was a child of two, creating a parent both idealized and painfully real. In “Lila,” Wiley remembers his adoptive mother, an unloving and unlovable, self-involved woman, whose early death from cancer left a permanent void in his family. And in “Angel,”the book’s remarkable closing piece, Wiley recalls a heavenly visitation that came to him and many others while studying at Harvard University, and which heralded a truth most difficult to bear. For lovers of literature who have yet to experience Brodkey’s unique style, soaring language, and conceptual brilliance, Women and Angels is a marvelous introduction to an American master.

More books from Open Road Media

Cover of the book The Motion of Light in Water by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Funny Boy Versus the Bubble-Brained Barbers from the Big Bang by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Whose Body? by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Daughters of England by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Never So Few by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book The Hymn by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book At the Mountains of Madness by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Recovery of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide for Women by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Eclogues by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book A Stiff Critique by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Babes in the Woods by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book Dead by Morning by Harold Brodkey
Cover of the book The Ladies by Harold Brodkey
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy