Dec 29, 2009
For more than three decades, Harold Brodkey worked on a sprawling, Proustian novel with a working title of “A Party of Animals,” based on his life from birth to the end of college. Portions of the novel, under contract to Farrar, Straus and Giroux since 1961, appeared first in The New Yorker, Esquire, and New American Review. Two of the three segments of Women and Angels, “Ceil” and “Angel,” were taken from this projected novel, which ran to more than two thousand pages in length. The novel was finally published in 1991 as...
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