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THE BROOKLYN BOOK OF THE DEAD by Michael Stephens
AUTHOR AUTOGRAPHED HARDCOVER BOOK

First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee. March 1994 NY: Dalkey Archive ISBN 9781564780379
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BROOKLYN BOOK OF THE DEAD, THE by Michael Stephens - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK

In The Brooklyn Book of the Dead, Michael Stephens presents the most
devastating vision of the Irish-American family since the nightmarish
portrayals of Eugene O'Neill and James T. Farrell. Returning to their
Brooklyn neighborhood for the wake and funeral of their father (Customs
Inspector Leland Coole, aka Jackie Ducks, Little Lee, Crazy Jack, but
remembered by his children as the "old bastard"), the sixteen Coole
children talk and reminisce about their father and family; all adults
now, their lives have been painful failures involving drugs, alcoholism,
violence, petty crime, incest, and despair. Like any truly emotionally
crippled children of a dysfunctional family, the Cooles rant with
bitterness about their pasts but likewise romanticize their family,
coupling an ability to analyze their plight with an utter inability to
do anything about it. The novel is also the story of the decline of
urban America and the story of third-generation immigrants who are both
cut off from their roots and yet unassimilated into the illusory
American melting pot. Stephens writes of all this with a passion and
love of his materials. And he writes bravely because this is a book that
will be attacked by those who believe in the mythical American family
invoked by "family-values" politicians and wealthy evangelists. If
Stephens has a message at all, it is that families are diseases made
fatal by a cynical American society.
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