Brothers : 26 stories of love and rivalry

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Brothers : 26 stories of love and rivalry

edited by Andrew Blauner ; foreword by Frank McCourt

Jossey-Bass, c2010

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Contents of Works

  • Civil war / Benjamin Cheever and Fred Cheever
  • Missing parts / David Kaczynski
  • The sensations of Jim / David Maraniss
  • My brother, life (with apologies to Pasternak) / Phillip Lopate
  • Secrets and bones / Mikal Gilmore
  • We were men / Richard Ford
  • American beauty / Ethan Canin
  • Doing time / John Edgar Wideman
  • My brother's a keeper / Chris Bohjalian
  • Headlock / Daniel Menaker
  • A drinking life / Pete Hamill
  • You can't kill the rooster / David Sedaris
  • Heavy lifting / Geoffrey Wolff
  • A brother's story / Tobias Wolff
  • Documents / Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Get away from me / Jim Shepard
  • The scarlet ibis / James Hurst
  • The Roberts boys / Steven V. Roberts
  • A death in the family / Dominick Dunne
  • Jambon dreams / Floyd Skloot
  • Imagining Robert / Jay Neugeboren
  • King of the Cleveland beatniks / Herbert Gold
  • The accident / Gregory Orr
  • Sacraments of reconciliation / Jerald Walker
  • Chang and Eng / Darin Strauss
  • Brothers on brotherhood / Nathaniel Rich and Simon Rich

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Description

"The next best thing to not having a brother (as I do not) is to have Brothers." -Gay Talese Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire and admonish, revere and revile, connect and compete, love and war with each other. With hearts and minds wide open, and, in some cases, with laugh-out-loud humor, the writers tackle a topic that is as old as the Bible and yet has been, heretofore, overlooked. Contributors range in age from twenty-four to eighty-four, and their stories from comic to tragic. Brothers examines and explores the experiences of love and loyalty and loss, of altruism and anger, of competition and compassion-the confluence of things that conspire to form the unique nature of what it is to be and to have a brother. "Brother." One of our eternal and quintessential terms of endearment. Tobias Wolff writes, "The good luck of having a brother is partly the luck of having stories to tell." David Kaczynski, brother of "The Unabomber": "I'll start with the premise that a brother shows you who you are-and also who you are not. He's an image of the self, at one remove . . . You are a 'we' with your brother before you are a 'we' with any other." Mikal Gilmore refers to brotherhood as a "fidelity born of blood." We've heard that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But where do the apples fall in relation to each other? And are we, in fact, our brothers' keepers, after all? These stories address those questions and more, and are, like the relationships, full of intimacy and pain, joy and rage, burdens and blessings, humor and humanity.

Table of Contents

Frank Mccourt foreword xi Benjamin Cheever and Fred Cheever civil war 1 David Kaczynski missing parts 15 David Maraniss the sensations of jim 31 Phillip Lopate my brother, life (with apologies to pasternak) 41 Mikal Gilmore secrets and bones 49 Richard Ford we were men 59 Ethan Canin american beauty 65 John Edgar Wideman doing time 85 Chris Bohjalian my brother's a keeper 91 Daniel Menaker headlock 97 Pete Hamill a drinking life 113 David Sedaris you can't kill the rooster 117 Geoffrey Wolff heavy lifting 125 Tobias Wolff a brother's story 141 Charles D'Ambrosio documents 149 Jim Shepard get away from me 157 James Hurst the scarlet ibis 167 Steven V. Roberts the roberts boys 173 Dominick Dunne a death in the family 183 Floyd Skloot jambon dreams 195 Jay Neugeboren imagining robert 209 Herbert Gold king of the cleveland beatniks 221 Gregory Orr the accident 231 Jerald Walker sacraments of reconciliation 243 Darin Strauss chang and eng 251 Nathaniel Rich and Simon Rich brothers on brotherhood 257 About The Editor And Contributors 263 Acknowledgments 269 Sources And Permissions 271

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Details

  • NCID
    BB06450372
  • ISBN
    • 9780470599648
  • LCCN
    2008053154
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    San Francisco, Calif.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 273 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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