Louis to attend Harvard and conquer the New York literary scene, often wrote about the trouble with love during and after the sexual revolution, and he seemed to encompass its trajectory in his life and work. The brilliant young author of the collection "First Love and Other Sorrows" (1958), who had come east from St. It is a sentence-bold and high-mindedly humorous (if not outright pretentious), addressing not just a woman's character but the status of her century-that could have been written only by Brodkey. "To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die": thus Wiley Silenowicz, Harold Brodkey's alter ego, described the aristocratic beauty of Orra Perkins, in the controversial story "Innocence," in 1973.
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