Michael Brodsky

• Oct-1988
• / General Fiction
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Thirteen stories from a modern master

"Brodsky is a master both of technique and of language, his sentences positively crackling with unexpected insights."--Publishers Weekly

"Brodsky possesses a masterly control of diction and rhythm, ...

• Dec-1989
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1990
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1993
• / Literary
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Three Goat Songs is a series of variations on a theme. It is divided into three novellas, each about a man who sits on a rocky coast by the seashore, contemplating. Herds of goats come there to graze. The man is a husband and father of two children.T...

• Apr-1994
• / Literary
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• May-1996
• / Literary
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Scattered throughout the novella "Southernmost" are allusions to the poets Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens. Here, Brodsky explores the tension between two types of artists, equally tormented. Stevens, an insurance salesman with an unhappy marriage, le...

• Mar-2003
• / General Fiction
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Detour charts the struggle of a film-crazed young man to shape his identity; it is also about his resistance to doing so at every turn. Owning an identity can mean being straitjacketed, condemned to a living death; language becomes both an escape fro...

• Jan-2007
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. From the author of the novel Detour, for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation of the PEN American Center, comes LIMIT POINT, another volume of short fiction by the prolific Michael Brodsky. Born in New York in 1948, Bro...

• Sep-2013
• / Literary
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Lurianics tells the story of a youngish man - one Isaac Luria (namesake of one of the world's great Kabbalists) - who seeks to create a "true work" which will give his life a meaning that is uniquely beyond label. Set on Manhattan's Upper West Side, ...

• Apr-2019
• / Literary
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This startling novel is the concentrated peak of Brodsky’s dynamic and unique vision. With a shifting group of characters -- Mazel Tov Jones, Neddie and Eddie, Vladimir and Mr. and Mrs. Stein, Brodsky explores the thought process of a protagonist w...

• Aug-2023
• / Literary
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Twenty years in the making, Michael Brodsky's opus, Invidicum, is a sprawling satirical novel about an experimental drug for Envy Disease and those involved in its clinical trials: participants, drug developers, psychiatrists, technicians, hanger...