The World is the Home of Love and Death
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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. The Runaway Soul stories are from the perspective of that novel's protagonist
, Wiley Silenowicz. They detail his life from infancy, as a deathly ill child separated from his biological mother; through his childhood, living with stepparents Lila and S.L. and sister Nonie; adolescence, caring for the dying S.L.; and finally into adulthood, where he finds acceptance from the artistic community for his exceptional writing talents.
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
written by Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub was an American writer, and novelist.-Life:Brodkey was raised in University City, Missouri outside St. Louis...
and first published posthumously in 1997. Most of the stories were written to be part of his novel The Runaway Soul
The Runaway Soul
The Runaway Soul, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1991, first edition ISBN 9-780374-252861, Library of Congress catalog card number 91-75885, is the long-awaited first novel by Harold Brodkey...
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
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
and one ("Religion") in Glimmer Train
Glimmer Train
Glimmer Train is an American literary journal founded in 1990 in Portland, Oregon. It is published quarterly.-Past contributors:* Brad Barkley* Charles Baxter* Ron Carlson* Greg Downs* Peter Selgin* Andre Dubus III* Aaron Gwyn* Noy Holland...
, from 1986 to 1996. The Runaway Soul stories are from the perspective of that novel's protagonist
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
, Wiley Silenowicz. They detail his life from infancy, as a deathly ill child separated from his biological mother; through his childhood, living with stepparents Lila and S.L. and sister Nonie; adolescence, caring for the dying S.L.; and finally into adulthood, where he finds acceptance from the artistic community for his exceptional writing talents.
Stories
- "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"