The Runaway Soul

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480427990

<DIV><DIV><b>Harold Brodkey&rsquo;s acclaimed novel is a mesmerizing work of literary genius, exploring the momentous events in the life of a family in twentieth-century St. Louis, and a writer still haunted by a childhood tragedy </b></div><DIV><BR>First published in 1991, <i>The Runaway Soul</i> took Harold Brodkey more than three decades to complete. This sprawling novel has since been eagerly embraced by readers and critics alike, earning Brodkey the epithet of an &ldquo;American Proust.&rdquo; Told by Wiley Silenowicz, Brodkey&rsquo;s fictional alter ego, the story snakes back and forth across the unforgettable events of a life. Following the traumatic death of his mother, Wiley recalls his troubling childhood in the care of his cousins: smooth-talking S. L. Silenowicz, his beautiful, emotionally deficient wife, Lila, and their abusive daughter, Nonie, who torments Wiley to no end.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>In language that soars and hypnotizes, <i>The Runaway Soul </i>fearlessly explores youth and adulthood, love and loss, sex and death, marriage and family, tracing upon one man&rsquo;s odyssey through a troubling world. More than two decades after it first appeared in print, Harold Brodkey&rsquo;s magnum opus remains one of the finest literary works produced by an American novelist in the twentieth century.</div></div>