Yellow Bricks - Softcover

Louis Daniel Brodsky; L.D. Brodsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568090536 ISBN 13: 9781568090535

Publisher: Time Being Books, 1999

In this, Brodsky's first book of short fictions, you're likely to find yourself in absurdity's line of fire, the ammo consisting of an insurance agent, adept at selling policies covering impregnation by aliens; a milquetoast husband, whose nagging wife communicates with him via Post-it Note commands; a quarter-ton Jujyfruits addict, who receives direct-from-the-factory shipments of his sole source of sustenance; a family man, who abruptly leaves his wife and kids, then returns, just as abruptly, two decades later, ready for dinner; and a ravenous traveler, overcome by the Tex-Mex mystique of a Missouri hotel restaurant, whose mascot is a three-foot-long iguana. In addition, you'll be shot through by the armor-piercing language and ballistic behavior of a South St. Louis auto-factory-assembly-line worker, a man's man, who appreciates the finer things in life: brewskies and pigskin action.

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About the Author:

Brodsky is the author of fifty-five volumes of poetry (five of which have been published in French by �ditions Gallimard) and twenty-three volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner and seven books of short fictions. His poems and essays have appeared in Harper's, The Faulkner Review, Southern Review, Texas Quarterly, National Forum, American Scholar, Studies in Bibliography, Kansas Quarterly, Ball State University's Forum, Cimarron Review, and Literary Review, as well as in Ariel, Acumen, Orbis, New Welsh Review, Dalhousie Review, and other journals. His work has also been printed in five editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.

Review:

It’s a tour de force of an American Kafka searching for psychic stability in an unstable world. -- Michael K�epf, author of The Fisherman’s Son

To read L.D. Brodsky’s Yellow Bricks is to journey through the exciting labyrinth of an artist’s mind." -- Jory Sherman, author of The Baron Brand

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