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Fiction, from 1990: “My guess is that spring is a natural way of suggesting adolescence as something one should start to go through again.”
Harold Brodkey
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Story about a boy, Wiley, his parents, S.L. and Lila, and their servant, Annemarie. Wiley recalls the 2 1/2 or 3 years that Annemarie was with them as …
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"S.L." is about a child's relationship with his adoptive father. At the time of the story, S.L. is thirty-three years old and his son is three. They …
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Writer imagines Ceil, his mother, who died when he was 2. He tends to feel an almost theatrical fright when he is near a subject that hints of her. …
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Story about the writer's early life as the adopted child of Jewish parents in a Midwestern town. He recalls his mother in her younger years, when she …
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Harold Brodkey reminisces about his dying mother & his state of mind when he was 13. The family was Jewish. It was 1943, in St. Louis, & Doris Brodkey, his…
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Laura Andrews was a tall young woman who looked serene. But she was three months pregnant and had a four year-old daughter, and this particular August day …
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The writer recalls the spring he was 16, living in St. Louis. His sister, whom he adored, was 22, and beautiful. Their father was dead. The mother often …
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Fiction, from 1954: There was going to come a moment when, like an acrobat, I was going to have to climb on her shoulders and leap out into a life she couldn’t imagine.