Harold Brodkey THE RUNAWAY SOUL First Edition Signed
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Harold Brodkey THE RUNAWAY SOUL First Edition Signed
First UK edition first print hardback of THE RUNAWAY SOUL by Harold Brodkey and published by Jonathan Cape in 1991. Signed by Brodkey on the title page.The book is in near fine condition (black cloth boards with gold lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket (protected in an archival sleeve) which also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Wiley Silenowicz is the hero, the narrator, and the controlling intelligence of Harold Brodkey's prodigious and enthralling novel. . . . Wiley's mind and imagination are lightning-quick, obsessively ruminative, alternately grandiose and self-doubting - one of the most sensitive registers of an individual's experience to be found in literature.
We hear him meditating on his mother's overpowering nature and his father's seductiveness, on his sister's pathological jealousy and his own mystical yearning for oneness with the world. Later, in adolescence and young adulthood, we are with him as he tests the various permutations of sexuality in a ceaseless quest for love.
Other people's voices resound in his head; ideas teem, converge, refract. Wiley is rash and shameless, tender and fearless, nothing human is alien to him in his search to unravel the nature of good and evil and its relation to himself and those he loves.
835 pages
ISBN: 0224030019
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