The Runaway Soul (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Aaron Roy Weintraub
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to 1950’s
- Setting: The Illinois suburbs of St. Louis; Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York City
- Principal Characters: Wiley Silenowicz, S. L. Silenowicz, Lila, Nonie, Anne Marie, Ora, Leonie, Daniel, Remsen
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age
- Locales: New York, NY
Harold Brodkey’s thin output and much-touted promises have kept those who follow his career in limbo for more than a quarter century awaiting the publication of his Party of Animals, which has been under contract to various publishers through the years. With the publication of his first novel, The Runaway Soul, Brodkey at sixty-one makes good at least partially on his promises. It is not clear whether this huge, Proustian novel, this detailed outpouring of Wiley Silenowicz’s inner soul, is the whole of what has occupied Brodkey for so many years or whether more is to...
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