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The world is the home of love and death : stories / Harold Brodkey.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brodkey, Harold.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Families--Middle West--Fiction.
Families.
Boys--Middle West--Fiction.
Boys.
Middle West--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Middle West.
Physical Description:
312 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Metropolitan Books, c1997.
Summary:
An anthology of perversion and pornography. In Dumbness Is Everything, a drunk married couple engage in brutal sex, while in Car Buying, a family--parents and children--raise verbal and physical abuse to the level of art.
Contents:
The bullies
Spring fugue
What I do for money
Religion
Waking
Car buying
Lila and S.L.
Jibber-jabber in Little Rock
The world is the home of love and death
Dumbness is everything
A guest in the universe.
ISBN:
0805055134 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
36728039

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