![]() ![]() Also, as a New Yorker contributor living in the city, socially (and sexually) active, a powerful personality who was tall and attractive to boot, Brodkey was the natural object of the gossip and talk that make up much of a putative literary reputation. ![]() True, Brodkey was already recognised as a talented writer of stories whose natural next move, in conventional American literary terms, would be the "big book" or novel. But it was the novel which literary society was waiting for nothing else would do. "Innocence", an account of a sexually voracious affair with a beautiful young woman ("To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die"), stands out for its candour, and the title story, about the death of his adopted mother, is made the more moving by the dispassion of the narrator's account. His collection Stories in an Almost Classical Mode appeared in 1988, many of them very good indeed. The Runaway Soul, Brodkey's novel, appeared in 1991, but it was during the quarter-century of its intermittent composition that Brodkey became truly famous.
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