"These poignant stories spread out like blood from a gash....This book is like a big brother reminding you of what is important in life. It will make you want to pick up the phone and call out: Brother, where art thou?"
--The Boston Globe "Brothers reminds us that the similarities brothers find so infuriating in their youth ultimately yield to a kind of comfort and consolation they won't find anywhere else. They've been through the trenches together and shed the same blood. Who else but a brother can understand that?"
--The Los Angeles Times
"An endlessly fascinating book. [Brothers] will quite likely appeal to readers in their parental roles, to women with brothers, and just about everybody else in one manner or another."
--The Denver Post
"Watch the boys in this rich anthology battle and booze, worship, envy, argue, and die, and try not to think of your own brother."
--Playboy
"This intimate collection offers rare insight into brothers' sometimes chummy, often complex relationships with one another. A compelling read that sheds new light on a relationship that is as old as the Bible, yet often overlooked."
--The Daily Beast
"Frank McCourt's rollicking essay detailing each of his brothers' strengths and weaknesses is a fitting introduction to literary agent Blauner's assortment of sibling ruminations. An accomplished paean to brotherly love."
--Kirkus Reviews
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
