Volume 37, Number 2 · February 15, 1990
Look Homeward, Angel
By Edward Rothstein
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
by Harold Brodkey
Knopf/Vintage, 596 pp., $12.95 (paper)
It is more than a year since Stories in an Almost Classical Mode was published, and the various expressions of dissatisfaction, unease, and enthusiasm that greeted it have since abated. Harold Brodkey's book of short stories, just published in paperback, can now begin to stand apart from the expectations and posturings that have always seemed to accompany the author and word of his work, for in the career he has mapped out for himself, in the discussion his work has inspired, in the gossip that has accompanied the wait for this, his second commercially published book in thirty years, Brodkey's personality has seemed inextricably linked to the reception of his work.
Review, 6750 words
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