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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1957
- Publisher
- H. Holt and Co.
- Pages
- 319 pages
- ISBN
- 0805060103
First love and other sorrows
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About this book
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 themes that would appear throughout his career: the painful uncertainties of childhood and the halting intimacies of social life. This edition includes three never-before-collected stories, to complete an anthology of rare tenderness, humor, and haunting insight.
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Horror / Dark Elements
Romance
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