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The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories

The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories

The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories

The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories

by Brodkey, Harold

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New York: Metropolitan Books: Henry Holt, 1997. 311 pp. Includes 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. 'I would like to do a tree census--find out how many trees I own, how many branches, how many twigs and leaves. And bugs. A quarter of a million leaves. A million leaves . . . I am a millionaire of rustling leaves . . . of grass blades. Of molecules of air . . . I own the air I breathe at this minute. Cubic yards of air, invisible stones of a luminous temple.'--from 'What I Do for Money.'. First Edition, First Printing. Paper-covered Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Title
The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories
Author
Brodkey, Harold
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
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Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10
0805055134
ISBN 13
9780805055139
Publisher
Metropolitan Books: Henry Holt
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1997
Keywords
FICTION SHORT STORIES SINGLE AUTHOR
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