Brothers : 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry

by Editor: Andrew Blauner; Foreword by: Frank McCourt

• ISBN13: 9780470391297
• ISBN10: 0470391294
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This book will be a great and compelling reading experience, deeply moving, profoundly intelligent, and totally entertaining, including fiction and memoir about: * Brothers by choice, or from different families but closely bonded by shared experience, work, trauma, love and marriage. * Brothers who describe themselves as "brothers in arms, blood brothers, a band of brothers, the brother I never had." The premise of Blauner's commentary and selections is that brothers and brotherhood is important, and crucial to understanding ourselves, our families, and our place in the world. Not "a valentine" but an edgy, challenging, confrontive and intimate psychological perspective with a big mix of tone, culture, and narrative style. The key is in the very high quality of the writers and their work.

Author Biography

Andrew Blauner is the founder of Blauner Books Literary Agency. He is the editor of COACH: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference and coeditor of Anatomy of Baseball.

Table of Contents

foreword	p. xi
civil war	p. 1
missing parts	p. 15
the sensations of Jim	p. 31
my brother, life (with apologies to pasternak)	p. 41
secrets and bones	p. 49
we were men	p. 59
american beauty	p. 65
doing time	p. 85
my brother's a keeper	p. 91
headlock	p. 97
a drinking life	p. 113
you can't kill the rooster	p. 117
heavy lifting	p. 125
a brother's story	p. 141
documents	p. 149
get away from me	p. 157
the scarlet ibis	p. 167
the roberts boys	p. 173
a death in the family	p. 183
jambon dreams	p. 195
imagining robert	p. 209
king of the cleveland beatniks	p. 221
the accident	p. 231
sacraments of reconciliation	p. 243
chang and eng	p. 251
brothers on brotherhood	p. 257
about the editor and contributors	p. 263
acknowledgments	p. 269
sources and permissions	p. 271
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