The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket, and moderate rubbing at bottom edge. Pages are clean and binding tight.
The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories is a collection of short stories written by Harold Brodkey and first published posthumously in 1997. Most of the stories were written to be part of his novel The Runaway Soul and concern its characters. Four of the eleven stories ("The Bullies", "Spring Fugue", "What I Do for Money", and "Dumbness is Everything") were originally printed in The New Yorker and one ("Religion") in Glimmer Train, from 1986 to 1996.
. Very Good / Very Good. Item #62
ISBN: 0805055134
Price: $25.00