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40 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 3 reviews
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published
September 1st 1992
by Penguin (Non-Classics)
binding
Paperback, 288 pages
isbn
0140167730
(isbn13: 9780140167733)
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Read in June, 2008
Ik heb al sinds jaar en dag een zwak voor het werk van door-en-door Amerikaanse verhalenvertellers, of het nu gaat om de kortverhalen van Raymond Carver en John Cheever of romans van ronkende namen als John Irving (alhoewel, die Until I Find You was eigenlijk toch een tegenvaller), Philip Roth en Richard Ford. Pete Dexter, in 1988 nog winnaar van de National Book Award met Paris Trout, is er ook zo een. Brotherly Love is op geen enkel vlak écht opvallend of vernieuwend, maar dat hoeft ook niet....more
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Read in July, 2008
I think I liked P. Trout better although I haven't looked at that book in a long time. I remember Dexter creating better tension in Trout, which Brotherly should have had more of. Also, something nagged at me over and over throughout the story, and that was Dexter's overuse of pronouns. When he's talking to him, I had a couple of episodes of, "Who the f are you talking about with all these "he's" and "hims". Also I can't remember Dexter's earlier prose, but in "...more
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i love a hometown philly boy who can write our stories... this one is inter-generational...
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