Brotherly Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Pete Dexter
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1961-1986
- Setting: Philadelphia
- Principal Characters: Peter Flood, Michael Flood, Charley Flood, Phillip Flood, Nick DiMaggio, Harry DiMaggio
- Genres: Long fiction, Suspense
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Emotions, Mental illness, Violence, Death or dying, Revenge, Philadelphia, Corruption, Boxing, Gangsters, Organized crime, Morality or morals, Labor unions
- Locales: Philadelphia, PA
Brotherly Love is a not-quite-typical example of the fictional mode, common and perhaps even dominant in the 1980’s and into the 1990’s, that might be called black realism. Spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, the characters in such fiction are adrift. Their work is never a true vocation; it serves no important social function and exists only to fulfill desires that are often extravagantly greedy. Similarly, relationships are rarely serious, rarely last, exist primarily to gratify the senses and the ego. Often the pace and the prose of such fiction are languorous; in...
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