cover image Stories in an Almost Classical Mode

Stories in an Almost Classical Mode

Harold Brodkey. Vintage Books USA, $21 (608pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72431-5

These 18 stories ``are freighted with a magnificence of language that reveals Brodkey's singular ability to convey the truth and complexity of a moment in time, frequently as seen through the eyes of a child,'' found PW , noting the delicacy and sadness of the ``exquisitely rendered narratives.'' (Oct.)